Childcare & Early Education

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Politics & Policy

May 23, 2016

Everyone knows babies go through a lot of diapers. But for low-income families, the cost of diapers often forces them to go without another necessity, like food or heat. For many, it can force them to leave babies in soiled diapers longer than they’d like, leading to physical and mental health issues for baby and mom. Despite the fact that families in the bottom fifth of the income ladder with infants spend 14 percent of their income for diapers alone, there is currently no federal assistance for purchasing diapers.

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Lecia Imbery

Childcare & Early Education

May 20, 2016

Springtime means more than post-winter thaw and the colorful display of fresh blossoms. It also marks the season of Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, the two days a year we devote to saying thanks to our parents for all they’ve done for us. And those days are more than well-deserved because, let’s...

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Eva Bloomfield

Childcare & Early Education Health Care

May 20, 2016

Pediatricians aren’t usually day-to-day policy makers but policy decisions affect the work they do every day as frontline caregivers for our nation’s children.

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Marian Wright Edelman

Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security

May 13, 2016

Recently I had an opportunity to share my family’s story with the talented writer, Judith Warner. Judith is a New York Times bestselling author who wrote the book Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety. A version of my family’s story is included in her recent report for the Center for...

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Sarah Sadowski

Childcare & Early Education

May 13, 2016

When Andrew Carnegie was a seventeen-year-old immigrant “working boy” in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania (now Pittsburgh’s North Side) in 1853, he wanted to be able to borrow books to improve himself – but in the era of predominantly private libraries he was stopped by an annual $2.00 library subscription fee.

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Marian Wright Edelman

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget

May 11, 2016

VHS tapes, 8-tracks, a computer bigger than your car. Some things are better left in the past. Huge Pentagon budgets should be one of them. Although we are supposed to be ramping down efforts in Afghanistan, Congress continues funding the U.S. military at historically high levels: In 2016 we will...

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Lindsay Koshgarian

Childcare & Early Education

May 10, 2016

As parents, we try to do the best for our children. We want them to be happy, healthy, successful and more. For me, quality education is a huge priority for my son Tommy. So when it was time to find the right preschool for him, I did not take the task lightly. I’m lucky to work part-time for Great...

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Lindsay Warren

Childcare & Early Education Military Families

May 9, 2016

Military families need more child care flexibility than is often available within their military community. One mom builds the case for greater availability of hourly care.

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National Military Family Association

Childcare & Early Education

May 8, 2016

As mothers and grandmothers who have dedicated our lives to serving children, our own and others, we know firsthand how important a stable home, a positive emotional and learning environment and safe communities are for a child’s healthy development.

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Marian Wright Edelman

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

May 6, 2016

As we celebrate mothers and grandmothers, foster mothers, and all those who step in to parent children in need, let’s pledge to take responsibility not only for our own children and grandchildren but for all children or at least for one child who may not be our own.

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Marian Wright Edelman