This week: Unionizing Home-Based Providers to Help Address the Child Care Crisis
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April 6, 2023
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Unionizing Home-Based Providers to Help Address the Child Care Crisis
Unfortunately, the United States has historically undervalued the child care workforce and failed to foster healthy labor conditions in this industry. In addition to more federal and state investments, strong unions for child care workers are part of the solution.
This brief outlines how collective bargaining policies benefit home-based child care providers, families, and the economy, sharing successes from across the nation. State policymakers, child care advocates, and labor leaders can use these lessons to develop similar collective bargaining rights for these vital workers.
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Prison Abolition–But Make It Indigenous [[link removed]]
Although many people believe that prison abolition is impossible, Indigenous communities have deep experience with anti-carceral approaches to justice.
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Family-Friendly Applications are Key to Equitable Access in Child Care [[link removed]]
The application process for child care assistance creates unnecessary administrative burdens for both families with low incomes and states. More families can get the care they need when states use family-friendly child care applications.
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On Trans Day of Visibility, Listen to Young People
We must stand in solidarity with trans and nonbinary young people and recognize that their liberation is intrinsically tied to the liberation of all other people who have been subjected to violence for centuries under white supremacist systems.
Quite a few media outlets republished this commentary in places like St. Louis [[link removed]] , Seattle [[link removed]] , and Kansas City [[link removed]] .
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Did You Know? Pandemic-era rules maintaining continuous coverage for people insured by Medicaid ended last week. This return to “normal operations” means that an estimated 15 million people may lose their health insurance over the next year. [[link removed]]
Nearly half of those estimated to lose coverage will do so despite still being eligible. Advocates have a crucial role to play in ensuring that as many eligible people as possible keep their Medicaid coverage as states “unwind” from the continuous coverage provisions and begin disenrolling people.
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Upcoming Events
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On April 13, CLASP will host a webinar titled “ How the Transformative Justice and Healing Justice Movements Inform How We Must Approach Mental Health Systems [[link removed]] .” This is part of a quarterly learning series focused on decolonizing mental health care.
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On April 18, Kathy Tran will be the opening keynote speaker at the National Summit for Educational Equity [[link removed]] in Washington, D.C.
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On April 20, the Community Partnership Group at CLASP will host a webinar on “ Reducing Hunger on College Campuses through Collaboration and Commitment [[link removed]] .” Speakers will address the root causes of hunger on college campuses and demonstrate how a lack of comprehensive federal policies contribute to this issue.
Recent Events
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On April 4, Indi Dutta-Gupta spoke at WorkRise’s virtual event titled “ How Tight Labor Markets Create Mobility Ladders for Workers and Low-Income Families .” Watch a recording of the event here [[link removed]] .
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