Urge Congress to help end the child care crisis NOW!

Child care is unaffordable for too many families; some families report paying a third of their take home pay to child care. Too many parents– mostly moms– are pushed out of the workforce due to the lack of affordable child care.

The pandemic only made this situation much much worse, and our child care system hasn’t come close to recovering. Child care workers NEED to be paid family-supporting wages and so far, our country has let them down.

Families and care workers deserve investment in high-quality, affordable childcare

Urge your members of Congress to co-sponsor and support the Child Care for Working Families Act to expand access to affordable, high-quality early learning for families!

Dear Member of Congress:

Child care is unaffordable for too many families. Parents –many of them moms–are being pushed out of the workforce. There is a critical shortage of child care workers, who earn some of the lowest wages while providing critical care for our nation’s children. Our families desperately need access to affordable, high-quality early learning, which is why we are urging you to co-sponsor and support the Child Care for Working Families Act.

The Child Care for Working Families Act establishes a child care and early learning infrastructure that ensures working families can find and afford the child care they need to succeed in the workforce and children can get the early education they need to thrive. It would jumpstart our economy by creating roughly 700,000 new child care jobs, help 1.6 million parents—primarily mothers—go back to work, and lift one million families out of poverty.

The Child Care for Working Families Act:

Makes child care more affordable for working families, by creating a federal-state partnership to provide financial assistance for working families with children ages 0-13
Expands access to preschool programs for 3- and 4-year olds, by providing funding to states to establish and expand a mixed-delivery system of high-quality preschool programs
Improves the quality and supply of child care for all children
Increases wages for child care workers, by ensuring that all child care workers are paid at least a living wage and earn parity with elementary school teachers with similar credentials and experience
Better supports for Head Start programs, by providing the funding necessary to offer full-day, full-year programming

We can unite to create a better future for all families by passing the Child Care for Working Families Act!

Thank you,

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