An Anti-Racist Child Care System for Families & Educators (2024)
This brief from the National Women’s Law Center and Georgetown Center on Poverty & Inequality presents a new, anti-racist blueprint for reshaping the Child Care and Development Fund. It recommends establishing child care as a fully funded and universal program, […]
Care is Fundamental: How Funders Can Accelerate Vital Progress on Caregiving (2024)
Caregiving – an essential public health issue that will touch all our lives sooner or later – is highly relevant to funders working on aging, as well as economic security, social justice, public policy, healthcare, workforce, immigration, children and families, […]
50-State Early Childhood Policy Progress and Landscape Report 2023
Alliance for Early Success provides a snapshot of what happened in 2023 in four key areas, including early care and education and maternal and child health, and looks at looks at how this progress could shape 2024.
Voter-Approved Children’s Funds
Voter-approved children’s funds, a portion of state or local tax revenue dedicated to children’s services via a ballot measure, pose a unique opportunity for states and communities to harness public will to increase funding for children and youth and fill existing […]
Citizens Initiatives and Popular Referendums Database
Citizen initiatives and popular referenda are two forms of direct democracy. The citizen initiative process enables citizens to bypass their state legislature by placing proposed statutes and, in some states, constitutional amendments on the ballot. Twenty-four states have citizen initiative processes. The popular referendum process allows […]
50 State Searchable Bill Tracking Database
National Council of State Legislatures’ 50 State Searchable Bill Tracking Databases provide comprehensive and complete 50-state information and searchable bill tracking databases, including databases on Early Childhood, Child Welfare, Ballot Initiatives, and more. Updated weekly, searchable by subtopics, year, status […]
Winning The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act: An Inside Story and Lessons Learned from the Decade-Long Fight for Justice, Fairness, and Equality (2023)
Winning the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act from A Better Balance documents the history of the decade-long movement to pass the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). The PWFA passed in December 2022, after a ten-year campaign to ensure pregnant workers are afforded […]
Reducing Intergenerational Poverty (2024)
Reducing Intergenerational Poverty, a new consensus study from the National Academy of Sciences, Board on Children, Youth, and Families examines key drivers of long- term, intergenerational poverty, including: structural factors, disproportionate effect of disadvantage to different racial/ethnic groups, and existing […]
Cross-Partisan Action Plan to Support Families with Young Children in America (2024)
Simply put, it is too hard to raise young children in America today while also working. Improving support for working families with young children is at the forefront of our national conversation. Most parents are in the labor force; however, workplaces and government policies have not caught up to help support working families in today’s environment. The […]
Care Infrastructure and Economic Security Voter Guide (2024)
The 2024 election offers an opportunity to support candidates who will strengthen women’s economic security, honor caregiving as the backbone of our economy by expanding affordable access to these services and increasing pay for care workers, and advance our fight for […]
Place Matters: The Environment We Create Shapes the Foundations of Healthy Development (2023)
A wide range of conditions in the places where children live, grow, play, and learn can get “under the skin” and affect their developing brains and other biological systems. Rapidly advancing science around early childhood development provides increasingly clear evidence […]
Case for Childcare Collaborative Microsite (2024)
The American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact, Annie E. Casey Foundation and NationSwell recently launched their Case for Childcare Collaborative microsite, which shares the business case for care and empowers employers with tangible solutions they can implement […]