A Press-Citizen guest opinion writer finds it disturbing that America isn t one of the 10 nations to offer equal legal rights for working men and women.
Iowa Womenâs Foundation receives national funding for child care initiatives Friday, April 30, 2021 10:34 AM The Iowa Women’s Foundation will receive funds from the Women’s Funding Network to help expand opportunities for working women by improving the child care sector in the state. Specifically, the funding will target the Iowa Women’s Foundation’s Building Community Child Care Solutions collaborative, which is an effort to increase access to child care across the state. BCCCS launched in 2018, and more than 30 communities have since participated in the program. With funding from the Women’s Funding Network, the Iowa Women’s Foundation hopes to increase BCCCS participation to 10 more communities. “In addition to creating 3,000 child care openings across the state, one of our biggest accomplishments with BCCCS has been helping businesses and the public recognize that child care is a workforce issue,” said Dawn Oliver Wiand, CEO of
New Child Care & Discovery Center to serve regionâs families and businesses Wednesday, April 21, 2021 1:00 PM • • Slated for construction in 2022, a new Child Development and Discovery Center in Decorah has already been heralded as a model for rural child care facilities across the State of Iowa.
The Child Development and Discovery Center facility was designed with input from local and state experts. In addition to providing daycare for 220 children, the innovative concept stems from a Discovery Center component which will provide revenue to offset costs of facility operations, increase employee pay and benefits and provide much-needed access to active indoor space for youth. Impetus driving the project is in response to what Stephanie Fromm, Executive Director of Winneshiek County Development and Tourism, has termed “a childcare crisis happening right here in the Midwest.”
Megan Alter said she is taking another shot at an at-large seat on the Iowa City Council. Honestly, I m running because of COVID, Alter said.
The pandemic, she said, elevated the challenges of childcare and food security that residents face every day. We can’t go back to normal not in a malevolent way, but there were too many people left behind, Alter said. We have to make a better normal.
Alter moved to Iowa City in 1995 to finish her Ph.D. in 19th century British literature. After finishing the program in 2004, she was a visiting professor in the English Department and the Sexuality Studies program. In 2009, she got a job at ACT, where she works as a senior manager in Content Solutions and Services.
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