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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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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

By the Numbers: Data on Key Programs for the Well-Being of Women & Their Families

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

A lifetime worth of benefits report cover

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

100 Days 100 Wins

100 Wins, 100 Days: Decisive Actions to Advance Gender Justice

Child Care and Early Learning: Addressing the Urgent Crisis

New Election Exit Poll Shows Bipartisan Support for Policies to Address Caregiving Crisis

The Care Minimum: The Case for Raising the Minimum Wage and Investing in Child Care Together

Child Care’s Struggle to Survive COVID-19: State Impacts and Responses (July Update)

Coalition of Over 50 National Organizations Urge Congress to Provide at least $50 billion in Stabilization Funding to the Child Care Sector in Next COVID-19 Relief Package