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The North Texas Child Care Workforce Study

The North Texas Child Care Workforce Study provides a comprehensive picture of North Texas’s early care and education (ECE) workforce, including workforce size, child care supply, educator characteristics, and experiences and challenges child care directors

Home Visiting and Child Welfare Involvement: A Matched Comparison Group Study

See the latest in our ongoing work to build the evidence base around PN3 policies.

Refundable Tax Credits: Uptake Patterns in Texas Reveal Opportunities for States to Support Families

States and community organizations can increase awareness of credits. Increasingly, the state and federal government use tax credits, such as the child tax credit and the earned income tax credit, to support families with low

Receiving Concrete Support Linked to Home Visiting Program Engagement

Evaluating Texas’s in-kind and monetary assistance during COVID-19 To promote nurturing and responsive parent-child relationships and healthy home environments, states can offer home visiting programs to expectant and new parents with young children. During the

Transforming the Child Care Landscape: A Case Study of New Mexico

Throughout the nation, states are struggling to keep their child care industries afloat. Decades of underinvestment and a global pandemic threatened a near-total collapse of the system, held off only by temporary pandemic-era funding that

Child Care in Crisis: Texas Case Study

Read about specific issues facing the child care industry and what states can do to support children and families, early childhood educators, and child care businesses.

Workgroup Recommendations to Inform the 2022 Texas Child Care Workforce Strategic Plan

How to improve the Texas child care sector

The Build Back Better Act: Increasing Affordability, Access, and Quality of Child Care for Infants and Toddlers

The federal Build Back Better Act proposes a historic investment in the care of infants and toddlers that increases access and affordability by raising income eligibility levels in many states, capping family copayments, and setting

The Build Back Better Act: Increasing Affordability, Access, and Quality of Child Care for Infants and Toddlers

The full cost of high-quality child care is commonly equivalent to tuition at a four-year public university. To help working families with low incomes afford care, child care subsidy programs provide financial assistance to improve

New 2021 Roadmap Simulation: How Does Your State Fare?

What level of resources does a single mother with an infant and a toddler have to provide for her children in your state? How much does she have left of her earnings from her minimum wage