Why doesn’t the US value child care? A historic look
The pandemic has laid bare the stunning paucity of opportunities for children and their parents a situation that’s brought financial and emotional disaster not just to American mothers, but to the U.S. economy
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Mai Miksic works for Public Citizens For Children and Youth. COVID was a reckoning, she said. Jose F. Moreno / Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS
Child care ranked low on the list of jobs a mother had in 18th century colonial America.
What mattered more was survival. Wives and husbands toiled on farms, or in shops, and the work of bathing and feeding young ones fell to older children or other women, either enslaved or servants.
N.J. is getting $697M for childcare. Here’s where advocates want the money to go.
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U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross, D-1st Dist., held a roundtable discussion Thursday over Zoom with childcare advocates and providers to talk about the incoming federal aid, as part of the American Rescue Plan.Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media
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A New Jersey congressman and childcare providers and advocates held a roundtable Thursday to discuss incoming relief for the state’s childcare providers coming from the American Rescue Plan.
U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross, D-1st Dist., a member of the House Education and Labor Committee, met with Cynthia Rice, a senior policy analyst for Advocates for Children New Jersey, Keisha Wright-Daniel and Azizah Arline, both childcare providers, and Sister Donna Minster, the director of children’s services for Camden County over Zoom.