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» A Year into COVID, Child Care Issues Still Affect Mothers’ Employment (Marketplace)
In this story, Marketplace examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected mothers’ employment opportunities and what the outlook is for the future.
» Voice of the Reader: Invest in the Children (The Southern Illinoisan)
In this Letter to the Editor, Early Childhood Funding Commission member Lori Longueville writes about the commision’s report and recommendations for ECE.
» The Need for Child Care Isn’t Going Away: Poll Results Show What Parents Want (EdNC)
EdNC examines recent polling that shows what parents need and the building consensus among voters that early care and educations is worth supporting.
» Report: United States Could Have Universal Preschool by 2040 (Axios)
Axios takes a look at a National Institute for Early Education at Rutgers University (NIEER) report examining the different ways the U.S. could get to universal Pre-K.
» Mobile Vaccine Squad Has a Mission: Find and Protect the Neediest (Bloomberg CityLab)
CityLab takes a look at the efforts of one organization to help connect the most vulnerable residents to desperately-needed COVID vaccine appointments.
» How Teachers’ and Parents’ COVID Stress Is Affecting Children (PBS Newshour)
PBS Newshour examines how pandemic-related stress and anxiety in adults is affecting children, and methods for counteracting this.