Child Care

The Most Undervalued Driver of the Economy: Childcare with Jessica Sager and Bernadette Ngoh

If “children are the future” how are we guaranteeing support for those responsible for protecting them? Explore what caregiving means to our culture and why we aren’t paying enough attention.

August 24, 2023

The Most Undervalued Driver of the Economy: Childcare with Jessica Sager and Bernadette Ngoh

If “children are the future” how are we guaranteeing support for those responsible for protecting them? Explore what caregiving means to our culture and why we aren’t paying enough attention.

June 1, 2023

Ten Lessons from 10 Years of Charting Pathways for Children and Families

The Ascend Fellowship gathers leaders across the US to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty.

August 22, 2022

Building an Infrastructure of Care

One of the most important networks undergirding the US economy isn’t made of concrete or fiber-optic cable. We should give it the respect it requires.

June 25, 2021
Child care worker with two young kids

Leaders in Trauma-Informed Care Share Wisdom at CII Conference

As part of a Children’s Institute national virtual conference, Sarah Haight joined a panel of prestigious national leaders to discuss personal reflections and how to better understand, serve, and support families through trauma-informed policies and practices.

May 13, 2021

An Evidence-Based Approach to Child Support

The Centering Child Well-Being in Child Support Policy toolkit, developed in partnership with Good+ Foundation, features new analysis of state child support director survey data. We found that many states are moving to adopt more pragmatic and family-centered child support policies that put children where they belong: at the center.

September 1, 2020

Economic Opportunities Program Newsletter, November 2019

Learn how we’re helping low- and moderate-income people thrive in a changing economy.

December 1, 2019
Karla Bruce and Harold Pettigrew speak at "Building a Democratic Economy: How Do We Create Prosperity for All?" (November 13, 2019)

Free College Is Good, but Free Day Care Is Better

Despite the universal need for childcare, we invest little in providing quality, affordable care.

November 6, 2019
Child care services in British Columbia (used under Creative Commons license)

Helping Workers Get Ahead in Rural America

Surveys indicate that more than 1.5 million rural residents are working but earning below the federal poverty rate.

October 23, 2017

It’s Time to Make Affordable Child Care a National Priority

It’s time to make child care the national priority it should have been decades ago.

August 29, 2016