Video: Making Sense of Early Learning Policy
Experts highlight how states are utilizing a variety of policy levers to support early learning in the webinar recording.
About the Webinar
A 2023 National Women’s Law Center report highlights how states are tackling child care access and affordability, workforce recruitment and retention, and more.
Some of these policies and their effects on early learning are clear — they may boost early educators’ wages, benefits, and opportunities for professional development, or expand thresholds for eligibility to obtain child care assistance. Others appear to be more convoluted.
Get essential background and localized story ideas in EWA’s webinar recording.
- Learn how to jump start your early care and education coverage.
- Understand which trends to follow.
- Discover how zoning laws, tax policy, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families can help support early learning and child development.
NWLC’s Suggested Resources
- A 2022 NWLC report that assesses the status of state child care assistance policies in five key areas, including income eligibility, copayment and waiting lists.
- A fact sheet on the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit.
- An interactive U.S. map tracking local articles on how the child care funding cliff is impacting states and how much funding each state would receive if Congress passed emergency funding.
- Kathryn Menefee PowerPoint: “Tax Credits Related to Child Care.“
- Summaries of states’ 2023 legislative actions for child care.
- Tax credits related to child care.
- Why tax credits are not the full solution to the child care crisis, according to NWLC.
