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Last night House Democrats released a bill to combat the Coronavirus crisis. The child care provisions in the bill would help meet some of the critical needs, but they will not be enough.
President Trump's proposed one-time "investment" in child care is not what working families need—and, in fact, threatens basic protections for children and the standards that are the building blocks of high-quality child care.
A new brief from CLASP and ZERO TO THREE highlights the importance of health insurance to infants, toddlers, and their families as well as historic gains in coverage made under the Affordable Care Act.
The federal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program provides home visiting services to high-risk families. This fosters economic self-sufficiency, healthy development, and strong educational outcomes. However, without action from Congress, this crucial investment in families will expire in September.
Leaders in the early childhood community understand that young children need a full system of supports in health, education, and other social services to enter school ready to learn and grow up to reach their full potential.
In this blog post, Stephanie Schmit asserts that state and federal policymakers need to invest more resources in child care to support working families.
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) havereleased an Informational Bulletin (IB) highlighting the critical role Medicaid can play in supporting state policy choices to promote young children’s healthy development through maternal depression screening and treatment.
The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has called for universal depression screening and treatment for all adults, including pregnant and postpartum mothers. The recommendation is important because when the USPSTF speaks, health insurers and states have strong reasons to listen. This recommendation is a B priority level.
Senator Casey (D-PA), Representative Crowley (D-NY), and Representative Frankel (D-FL) introduced the Child Care Access to Resources for Early Learning (C.A.R.E.) Act, bicameral legislation to provide high-quality child care to all low-income families (below 200 percent of poverty) with children under age four by 2025.
President Obama’s fiscal year 2017 (FY17) budget proposal continued his call over many years for significant investments in child care and early education.