A new Oxfam report finds federal policies for child care lacking, proposes solutions to achieve a more caring economy.
As the U.S. heads back to school next month, many parents are looking forward to getting back to a stable schedule. However, on September 30, the expiration of pandemic-era federal funds to keep the child care industry afloat could result in severe disruptions, not just to parents’ schedules, but to the child care sector and overall economy.
If Congress takes no action and this funding ends, 70,000 child care programs are in danger of closing. More than 3 million children are projected to lose access to child care nationwide.
It is against this backdrop that Oxfam has released its US Care Policy Scorecard, which assesses over 30 federal care policies, including child care. The report, completed in partnership with National Women's Law Center, National Partnership for Women and Families, and Notre Dame's iLab, gives the U.S. an overall score of 43% on federal care policies. What that means is that the U.S. government is failing care workers, caregivers and families.
Care work fuels our society and makes the economy run, but it is often taken for granted, and the people who are doing paid care work lack protections under labor laws and are greatly underpaid. Many of the people who care for and educate our nation’s children—both paid and unpaid workers—are struggling under great physical and emotional pressure and experience...
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