Poor child care costs America over $172 billion dollars a year. What can we do about it?
In the final episode of Child Care Matters: Built to Break we look back across the series to try and answer this question. We look through all of the interviews we’ve done and try to find stands of hope and progress.
In this episode, we cover the highlights of the series, from the structural bureaucracy of the system-of-non-systems, and we look at the physical toll that child care takes on providers. We also look at what’s working in the child care system, what states are getting right, and which issues we can start addressing today.
In this episode:
Erica Phillips - Executive Director of The National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC)
Simon Workman — Co-founder & Principal, Prenatal to Five Fiscal Strategies
Child Care Matters: Built to Break examines America's early childhood system from the
perspectives of parents, providers, and experts, one piece of the puzzle at a time. If this
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What is Child Care Matters: Built to Break?
Why is it so hard to find high-quality, affordable child care in the U.S.? And what would it take to fix it? Child Care Matters: Built to Break is a critical examination of our early childhood system from the perspectives of those who live it every day.
Join host Jamee Herbert, CEO of BridgeCare, and a wide variety of leaders, experts, and critical stakeholders on this journey to reveal the underlying reasons for limited supply, skyrocketing costs, and a fragmented infrastructure that was set up to fail.