Harm is evident in the Greater Boston area where immigrant families’ daily lives are being upended by harsh immigration policies and children are losing out on vital health, nutrition, and educational services as a result.
The reemergence of worksite raids is an example of the Trump Administration’s enforcement-heavy approach that harms not only workers, but also families and communities.
Children of immigrants now comprise one in four of all children in the United States. Hardworking immigrants continue to be humiliated and punished due to an unjust system that relies on and often exploits their labor. Their children, the majority of whom are U.S. citizens, are…
This brief provides an overview of the unemployment insurance system, new federal benefits available through the CARES Act, and considerations for determining how unemployment compensation can support child care workers during the coronavirus crisis.
This brief provides new estimates of what it would cost to sustain the child care system during the coronavirus pandemic. We estimate that at least $9.6 billion is needed each month to fully fund existing providers in the child care system.
The Small Business Administration's loans have the potential to help child care providers in the short term, but the child care industry needs an investment of $50 billion dollars in accessible, flexible funding to help providers weather this crisis and reopen when the crisis is…
This fact sheet provides a basic overview of the SBA’s forgivable loans that could offer some relief to child care programs—and also demonstrates why loans are insufficient to solve the problem for providers and families.
This factsheet explores the nutrition provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. Families First includes several important provisions that will help parents and caregivers keep food on the table during this crisis,
The United States should prioritize the wellbeing of young children in our laws and policies. Yet the current administration has been indifferent to—and even motivated by—the harmful consequences of its immigration policy priorities for up to 7.5 million young children in immigrant families across the…
El 14 de agosto de 2019, el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS) del Gobierno de Trump publicó una nueva regla sobre el concepto de “carga pública.”Aquí presentamos información importante para profesionales en primera infancia