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Urgent Call to Action to Save Quality Child Care

The next week is critical in saving Ohio's quality child care system. Here's how you can take action today to save quality child care...

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Jun 2

Senate Budget Deals Devastating Blow to Ohio’s Child Care System, Undercuts Early Learning Workforce

"The Senate’s decision to eliminate Step Up to Quality will create a two-tiered child care system of haves and have-nots..."

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May 27

Mary McCarthy: Child Care is a Necessity, Not a Privilege

"Women also cannot get to work without adequate and affordable child care..."

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May 25

Wendy Pestrue: Child Care is Essential to Northwest Ohio Families

"It is up to us to determine whether our kids are worth it. United Way of Greater Toledo and its members strongly believe they are..."

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May 25

Ohio Businesses Speak Up for Expanding Access to Quality Child Care

"Ohio’s youngest learners, families, businesses, and communities cannot wait any longer. If not now, then when?..."

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May 24

Carla Adams: Limited Eligibility is Adding to the ECE Staffing Crisis

"The system of support for child care subsidies is flawed and adding to the early childhood crisis..."

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May 24

Kimberly Tice: Early Childhood Educators Need Access to Child Care

Hard work should also be rewarded, but some policies are insufficient & inadvertently keep hard-working parents from climbing the economic..

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May 21

Elizabeth Brown: Child Care Is Key to Supporting Women in the Workforce

"For many working mothers, the option to return to work is impossible without access to care for their children..."

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May 21

Why Quality Matters in Child Care

Research shows that children who participate in high-quality early childhood programs are better prepared for kindergarten...

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May 21

Malissa: The Child Care Crisis is Holding Back Families

"I would work to pay for child care, but what is the purpose of working if I do not have any money left to pay for other..."

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May 21

Robyn Lightcap: Investing in Child Care is an Investment in Ohio's Future

"To recover from this pandemic, we must invest in families. They want to work. They want to help bring back our economy..."

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May 21

Ashley Koontz: Access to Quality Child Care Can Break Cycles of Poverty

"Why not give young children a fighting chance to break the cycle? To reach their full potential?..."

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May 21

Dawn Blalock: Child Care Sets Young Children Up for Future Success

"Expanding child care eligibility to 150% of the Federal Poverty Level benefits all Ohioans by preparing more children for success,.."

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May 20

David Melin: The Time to Invest in Quality Child Care Is Now

"Today’s preschoolers are our future workforce, and they are facing unprecedented academic challenges..."

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May 20

Chris Burns: A Strong Workforce Relies on Quality Child Care

"We know that access to quality child care supports today’s workforce by helping parents with young children go back to work..."

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May 20

Liz Hibbs: Quality Child Care and Education Is Critical Infrastructure

"Early childhood education and care is the cornerstone of our society and all of its functions. Businesses depend on employees..."

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May 20

Scarlett Hilton: In-Home Child Care Providers Need Policymakers to Act

"Affordable child care is not just a family issue, it is a community issue..."

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May 20

Quality Child Care: Good for Working Families, Good for Businesses

Child care is not only essential to working parents, but also to the businesses that employ them...

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May 19

Ohioans are Calling on Legislators to Invest in Early Childhood

Ohioans strongly believe that if we want to make Ohio the best place to be a young child, the Ohio legislature must invest...

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May 13

State Legislators Urged to Help Ohioans Return to the Workforce by Expanding Access to Child Care

The lack of affordable quality child care options keeps Ohioans out of the workforce and hurts businesses.

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