Child Care is a top priority for Stanislaus 2030. A good child care system both creates and enables jobs by supporting good jobs for those working in childcare, and enables parents to participate in work, education, job training, or other related activities. Yet, in Stanislaus County, access to child care is a serious barrier, and in order to meet local …
NPR December 13, 2024 By Andrea Hsu WASHINGTON, D.C. — When Boniece Gillis first heard rumblings that child care workers across the city might be getting some kind of significant pay bump, she tried to keep her excitement in check. “I was like, I’ll believe it when it comes,” says Gillis, an assistant teacher with Educare DC who was making …
Stabilizing the economic well-being of home-based child care providers so children can succeed. When providers thrive, children and families succeed. Thriving Provider Project works with regional partners to provide direct cash payments to Family, Friend and Neighbor (FFN) caregivers and newly licensed Family Child Care (FCC) home providers. How it works This program will be piloted in multiple locations. Selected …
The Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) launched a pilot in January 2023 through the existing child care financial assistance program system to provide access to vouchers and contracted slots to income eligible staff working in programs licensed or funded by EEC. Any staff who qualify for a voucher and work at an early education or school aged program …
Photo Credit: skynesher/Getty Images NPR October 6, 2023 By Andrea Hsu With most of the federal government’s pandemic relief money for child care now spent, it’s up to states to step in with new ideas to solve the many problems plaguing the sector. A year ago, Kentucky came up with a creative solution that is already paying dividends. The state …
Center for the Study of Child Care Employment October 26, 2023 By Anna Powell and Annie Dade Kentucky made headlines recently for increasing access to early care and education (ECE): a unique strategy helps parents who work in ECE programs access subsidies for their own child care needs. Last year, Kentucky enacted a change in the state subsidy system, the …
Home schooling, the new parental chore brought about by coronavirus lockdowns, is being handled disproportionately by women, according to a new poll by Morning Consult for The New York Times. Fathers don’t necessarily agree — nearly half of those with children under 12 report spending more time on it than their spouse — but just 3 percent of women say their spouse is doing more. Eighty percent of mothers say they spend more time on it.
The economic downturn caused by the current COVID-19 outbreak has substantial implications for gender equality, both during the downturn and the subsequent recovery. Compared to “regular” recessions, which affect men’s employment more severely than women’s employment, the employment drop related to social distancing measures has a large impact on sectors with high female employment shares. In addition, closures of schools and daycare centers have massively increased child care needs, which has a particularly large impact on working mothers. The effects of the crisis on working mothers are likely to be persistent, due to high returns to experience in the labor market. Beyond the immediate crisis, there are opposing forces which may ultimately promote gender equality in the labor market. First, businesses are rapidly adopting flexible work arrangements, which are likely to persist. Second, there are also many fathers who now have to take primary responsibility for child care, which may erode social norms that currently lead to a lopsided distribution of the division of labor in house work and child care.
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