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Child Care & Early Learning Workforce

Child care providers—overwhelmingly women and predominantly immigrant women of color—care for the next generation and deserve fair pay and good working conditions.

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Re-Envisioning CCDF: Toward an Anti-Racist Child Care System That Serves Families & Educators

State Child Care and Early Education Updates 2023: Continuing Progress

Solutions to Address Looming Child Care Crisis

Early Educators’ Wage Growth Lagged Behind Other Low-Paid Occupations, Jeopardizing the Supply of Child Care as Relief Dollars Expire

The Child Care and Early Learning Workforce Is Underpaid and Women are Paying the Price

Child Care Rescue: How States Are Using Their American Rescue Plan Act Child Care Funds

State Child Care and Early Education Updates 2022: Progress on a Long Path

152,000 Women Join Labor Force in August

Men Have Recovered Net Jobs Lost to Pandemic While Women Are Still Missing 100,000 Jobs

NWLC Urges Congress to Fight for Care Investments in the Final Reconciliation Package

The Fight For Child Care

At the Crossroads: State Child Care Assistance Policies 2021

Sustaining Family, Friend, and Neighbor Child Care Beyond the Pandemic: Guidance and State Models

Women Gain 63% of the Jobs Added to the Economy in March

The Jobs Report Shows a Strong Month, but Black Women’s Labor Force Participation Drops and Unemployment Rate Rises

On the Precipice: State Child Care Assistance Policies 2020

National Campaign Celebrates Child Care Providers As The Backbone of Our Economy

We Are the Backbone: Faces of the Care Nation

What The American Families Plan Means for Women

NWLC Applauds the American Families Plan

NWLC Applauds Introduction of The Child Care for Working Families Act

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A Lifetime’s Worth of Benefits: The Effects of Affordable, High-Quality Child Care on Family Income, the Gender Earnings Gap, and Women’s Retirement Security

How the American Rescue Plan Provides Critical Relief to Women and Families

Federal Policy Solutions for Raising Wages and Investing in Child Care