What We're Reading: July 2023

Each month, Groundwork Ohio reads the latest and greatest resources on early education and health from a wide variety of sources. Below is a compilation of the most important articles we have read throughout July 2023.

OHIO NEWS

• Study shows sharp increases in maternal deaths over two decades

• School lunches, child tax credits, childcare access: What Ohio’s new budget does – and doesn’t do – for kids

• The State of Poverty in Ohio: Vulnerable to Destruction

• Columbus parents are in need of child care. Here's how it is affecting the workforce

• Child care availability impacts Dayton area businesses

• National polling shows Ohio voters want affordable child care

• Ohio must pay more to childcare centers that serve low-income families

• Ohio will pay for more kids' meals this school year

NATIONAL NEWS

Business Insider

• A millennial couple earning 6 figures pay $60,000 a year for childcare. It's their biggest financial burden.

Center for American Progress

• Policymakers Must Understand How Education, Health Care, and Economic Security Shape Early Child Development

EdSource

• Is the child care crisis poised to get worse?

First Five Years Fund

• Bipartisan, Bicameral Bill Tackles Access to Child Care for Parents Who Work Nontraditional Hours

Forbes

• New Legislation Arrives To Support Moms In The Workplace, 30 Years After FMLA

NBC News

• White House details plan to lower child care costs for low-income families

New York Magazine

• A Child-care Crisis Is Looming

New York Times

• More Mothers Are Dying. It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way

NPR

• Why parents, day care owners and day care workers are trapped in a broken market

Yahoo! News

• Governors Ask Congress for Child Care Funds as States Face Workforce Disruptions

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