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.

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, Seattle, and Kansas City. 

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.