#fixingchildcare

Building the Future of the Care Economy - Roosevelt Institute The US is facing a care crisis. Our care work focuses on addressing gaps in care through stable, long-term public investments that center worker equity and quality care outcomes while resisting privat...

The US care crisis is failing families, care workers, and entire communities.

We’re pushing for public investment that puts people—not profits—at the center of child and long-term care.

Read our recent work on all things care economy #fixingchildcare ⬇️ rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Childcare is a hellscape for most US families. Why isn’t there a bigger push for change? Long seen as women’s work, childcare is underpaid and considered a private matter for families – not government

Finding affordable, reliable childcare is a daily struggle for millions of American families.

It’s time for policymakers to offer meaningful solutions to childcare and consider it as essential as other public services. #fixingchildcare www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Childcare is a hellscape for most US families. Why isn’t there a bigger push for change? Long seen as women’s work, childcare is underpaid and considered a private matter for families – not government

Childcare in America is broken—expensive, scarce, & treated like a private problem rather than a public priority.

@ehaspel.bsky.social & Rebecca Gale on how the US has failed to treat childcare as the essential infrastructure it is #fixingchildcare 👇 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“Have You Ever Considered How You Might Transition Your Business to a New Owner?” - Roosevelt Institute In a new analysis Elliot Haspel explores how growing private equity ownership in childcare is driving inequality, limiting community access, and threatening sector stability—and how government-led sol...

Private equity is reshaping childcare—closing centers, limiting buyer options, and deepening inequality.

Local and federal governments must step up with public ownership models to protect families, workers, and communities. #fixingchildcare rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Whole Child, Whole Day, Whole Year: Assembling a Comprehensive Child Development System for America - Roosevelt Institute In a new report, economist Kathryn Anne Edwards makes the case for a comprehensive Child Development System supported by federal funds that would provide every child the right to a safe environment wh...

📚The school day ends at 3pm. Work doesn’t.

Parents are stuck filling in the gaps—patching together care, or leaving jobs.

It’s time for a Child Development System that covers the whole child, whole day, whole year. #fixingchildcare rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Who a Child Care Program Sells to Matters I have a new policy brief out with some ideas on public sector solutions to child care supply

More childcare providers are retiring—& without a plan, families face fewer and riskier options.

@ehaspel.bsky.social breaks down his new brief which explores how public policy can support ownership transitions that serve the public good #fixingchildcare familyfrontier.substack.com/p/who-a-chil...

Quote from the Roosevelt Institute discussing the need for publicly supported ownership transition models in the childcare sector, emphasizing societal benefits and diverse, high-quality options.

📉 Childcare is a broken market—and it’s failing families, providers, and communities alike.

@ehaspel.bsky.social explores how public intervention isn’t optional, but essential. #fixingchildcare rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

“Whole Child, Whole Day, Whole Year” In which I am jealous of a colleague

All kids deserve a safe, enriching place to be while their parents work.

@ehaspel.bsky.social explores @kedseconomist.com's bold vision for childcare: a free, universal system that spans early childhood, after school, and summer. #fixingchildcare familyfrontier.substack.com/p/whole-chil...

Local, state, and the federal government must develop alternate ownership transfer mechanisms in childcare as a bulwark against profit-maximizing financialization and as an affirmative good for building a family-friendly and family-centered care system and policy framework.

NEW: Investor-backed chains are quietly taking over childcare—deepening inequality & shrinking access.

In a new brief, @ehaspel.bsky.social outlines how public tools can shift power back to families & communities. #fixingchildcare rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Whole Child, Whole Day, Whole Year: Assembling a Comprehensive Child Development System for America - Roosevelt Institute In a new report, economist Kathryn Anne Edwards makes the case for a comprehensive Child Development System supported by federal funds that would provide every child the right to a safe environment wh...

No parent should have to choose between earning a paycheck and knowing their child is safe.

It’s time to build a Child Development System that meets all families where they are—before school, after school, and all summer long. #fixingchildcare rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...