How City and State Leaders Can Meet the Child Care Crisis

How City and State Leaders Can Meet the Child Care Crisis

New York City and State are in the midst of government budget negotiations, and the expiration of Federal emergency Covid relief funding has pushed our ongoing child care crisis into both conversations.  It’s a major crisis for families and also for child care providers. The Federal government recommends that affordable child care should cost no more […]

Kids’ School Schedules Have Never Matched Parents’ Work Obligations and the Pandemic is Making Things Worse

Kids’ School Schedules Have Never Matched Parents’ Work Obligations and the Pandemic is Making Things Worse

By Taryn Morrissey, The Conversation Whether I’m looking at the question of why it has always been hard to be a working parent in the United States as a mother with two children under 7, or as a scholar of child and family policy, one reason stands out. The hours employers demand and public school […]