Download the presentation from the report release, watch the video and access to their Child Care Matters Toolkit from the Women's Economic Security Campaign website.
Description
In this report, the Women's Economic Security Campaign (WESC) provides an overview of why quality early care and education is vital to improving economic security for low-income women. Child Care Matters: Building Economic Security for Low-Income Women includes data on child care
costs, the quality of available care and the state of the child care workforce for the geographic areas served by the four lead WESC funds in California, Illinois, Tennessee and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
The report also highlights promising practices used by our grantees and community partners to improve access to affordable, quality child care, and to increase wages and training for the primarily female child care workforce. Finally, we offer recommendations for changes in federal and state policy that would improve economic opportunity for low-income women by improving the early care and education available to their children.