Happy pub date to Emily Oster & Dr. Nathan Fox, whose new book, 'The Unexpected,' takes a data-driven approach to navigating pregnancy during & after complications. As is their way, they handle the topic with the humanity, care & urgency it deserves

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“TX can’t continue to have the TX miracle if working families can’t work b/c they can’t find child care. “It’s not just a social good. It’s not just a family good. It’s not just an education good. It’s an economic imperative.” Kelsey Erickson Streufert @TXRestAssoc tinyurl.com/3psj27d5

'We need a fully funded [child care] system so we can support children's development and our economy.' - Cora Hoppe, ED Rochester Child Care Center, NH

Telling @cbsnews about how the #childcarecliff has impacted her program.

#childcareforall

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“The End User Is a Dollar Sign, It’s Not a Child”: How Private Equity and Shareholders Are Reshaping American Child Care tinyurl.com/4pcw5pwm by Elliot Haspel via Early Learning Nation CC: Melissa Boteach Brendan Ballou Audrey Stienon Julie Kashen Lea Woods Ewald Engelen Antonia Simon MarthaFriendly

A year later, Florida businesses say the state's new anti-immigrant law dealt a huge blow.

“The Florida Policy Institute estimates this law could cost the state's economy $12.6 billion in its first year. That's not counting the loss of tax revenue.”
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Just another unrealistic body expectation for women.

New from me, a quick explainer on what today’s overturning of the New York Weinstein verdict means—for his case, and for the ongoing Trump “catch and kill” hush money trial: newyorker.com/news/news-desk…

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Great reporting from Elliot Haspel that provides much needed evidence of how the destructive private equity tactics observed elsewhere in the care economy are increasingly putting the child care industry at risk

This is profoundly discouraging. 19thnews.org/2024/04/harvey…

It's just so profoundly discouraging.

Read this excellent new investigation of private equity by Elliot Haspel which cites #childcare research I led IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1014…

Hear firsthand how impactful the DC Pay Equity Fund has been to early childhood educators and providers and what's at risk if it is cut in next year's proposed budget. Early Learning Nation Under 3 DC earlylearningnation.com/2024/04/gas-gr…

When research about family and history isn't a collaboration, subjects' voices are often lost. Dr. Chrishana LLoyd of Child Trends unpacks this in 'A 100-Year Review of Research on Black Families,' and offers paths forward for cooperative social science. bit.ly/3UwS1gh

This very long article (which took me several days to finish) is fascinating & disturbing. I had not realised the details of this means of funding private childcare - which affects the UK too. I think everyone interested in early years should read it.
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Fascinating work Elliot Haspel Thank you for your research on this topic. Looking forward to the conversation on Monday.

The canaries in the coal mine: Black grandmothers are increasingly the primary caregivers of children in the more families, and the unrelenting barriers they face reveal just how brutally broken our systems of care are. @drlsdpittman

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Strawberry Farmworkers Fight for a Living Wage

'People have to unite—and we need big demonstrations. It’s necessary to pressure the ranchers so they value our work. Without us they have nothing. We do all the work.'

Photo essay by David Bacon ➡️ buff.ly/3QgeR9I

They came back with a warrant.

Really important lesson for our schools to learn:

No phones= more learning
No phones= better mental health