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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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The Budget Reconciliation Bill Harms Families and Early Educators

Head Start Survives Trump Elimination Threat But Remains at Risk Thanks to Project 2025

Attacks on Head Start are Part of a Sustained Strategy to Undermine Progress for Families with Low Incomes: A Timeline of the Trump Administrations Efforts to Eliminate the Program

NWLC Fact Sheet Reveals Immigrant Women’s Vital Role in U.S. Workforce

The Caregivers Who Hold It All Together—and Why They Deserve More

Los cuidadores que lo mantienen todo unido- y por qué merecen más

BY THE NUMBERS: Data on Key Programs for the Well-Being of Women, LGBTQI+ People, and Their Families

States in the Resistance: Spring 2025

Caring Through Crisis: Immigrant Caregivers Speak Out

Amid Anti-Immigrant Attacks, New NWLC Resource Explores Critical Link Between Immigration & Caregiving

Four Things You Should Know About How Immigration Impacts Care Work

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Medicaid Cuts Threaten Direct Care Workforce

Webinar Series: Taking Care of Business- Legal and Financial Essentials for Women Business Owners

Work In Progress: State Child Care and Early Education Updates 2024

Communities Driving Change: The First Year of NWLC’s Community Impact Fund

NWLC Sounds Alarm as Head Start Programs Face Payment Delays After Trump’s Funding Freeze

States Can Make Care Less Taxing: Tax Credits Related to Child Care, Tax Year 2024

Balancing Acts: Stories of Women at the Crossroads of Working and Caregiving

Why Early Childhood Educators Like Me Deserve More

Supporting Home- and Community-Based Care Advances Gender Justice

Five Lessons from Illinois’ Investment in the Child Care Workforce

Address High Child Care and Housing Costs to Support Families and Build Up Child Care Supply

Project 2025 Would Worsen Our Country’s Child Care Crisis

Connection & Community: Elevating The Impact of Latina Early Educators