From Nadia, MomsRising.org <[email protected]>
Subject School’s out, the sun is shining and child care is still in crisis
Date June 22, 2023 5:24 PM
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Enough of cruel summers without child care!
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Dear Friend, 

There have been a few versions of songs called Cruel Summer, from
Bananarama in the 80s to Taylor Swift in the 2000s and though they are
total bops, they can unfortunately also be a theme song for the fact that
summer can be exceedingly cruel on the wallets of families around the
country.

[ [link removed] ]SIGN NOW to tell Congress we’re done with these cruel summers and that
they must support the Child Care for Working Families Act to expand access
to affordable, high-quality early learning for children and families!

Child care is challenging enough to find AND afford during the year, and
it only gets worse (and more expensive in the summer months). The average
American family spends upwards of $3,000 on summer programs for two
children. [1] This, on top of the fact that child care is already
unaffordable for too many families with some families reporting paying a
third of their take home pay to child care [ [link removed] ]. The high price of child
care has long been a burden for most families, rivaling the cost of
college in many states. [ [link removed] ] These statistics only get worse for families
of color – about 17% of Black children and 16% of Latino kids ages 5 and
under lived with a family member who had to quit, change or refuse a job
because of child care issues in 2021. The same was true for 10% of white
non-Hispanic children. [ [link removed] ]

[2]TAKE ACTION to tell Congress to support legislation that won’t leave us
here on our own without the child care we need!

The good news is that Congress just re-introduced the Child Care for
Working Families Act, which establishes a child care and early learning
infrastructure that ensures working families can find and afford the child
care they need to succeed in the workforce and children can get the early
education they need to thrive. It would jumpstart our economy by creating
roughly 700,000 new child care jobs, help 1.6 million parents—primarily
mothers—go back to work, and lift one million families out of poverty.

The Child Care for Working Families Act:

* Makes child care more affordable for working families, by creating a
federal-state partnership to provide financial assistance for more
families with children ages 0-13
* Expands access to preschool programs for 3- and 4-year olds, by
providing funding to states to establish and expand a mixed-delivery
system of high-quality preschool programs
* Improves the quality and supply of child care for all children
* Increases wages for child care workers by ensuring that all child care
workers are paid at least a living wage and earn parity with
elementary school teachers with similar credentials and experience
* Better supports for Head Start programs, by providing the funding
necessary to offer full-day, full-year programming

[3]Hot summer streets and the pavements are burning and too many of us
still can’t afford child care. Tell Congress to ACT NOW by co-sponsoring
and supporting the Child Care for Working Families Act!

This ongoing and worsening lack of access to comprehensive, quality,
affordable child care has had a devastating impact on the economic
vitality and viability of families. [4]Too many parents– mostly moms– are
pushed out of the workforce due to the lack of affordable child care. [ [link removed] ]
Especially during summer, for some families, the solution to care has been
for one parent — typically mothers — to leave the workforce and stay home
with the kids. That doesn’t sound like much of a solution to me.

[5]Adding your voice to support the Child Care for Working Families Act is
critical to ensure our leaders prioritize child care (including summer
care!) for our nation and families. 

We need to build a better future for all of us and our families. Let's
raise our voices together for child care!

- Nadia, Nina, Lauren, Diana, Donna, Kristin, and the whole MomsRising.org
& MamásConPoder Team

References:
[1] [ [link removed] ]Summer is around the corner. How are you coping with childcare?
[2] [ [link removed] ]Working Families Are Spending Big Money on Child Care
[3] [ [link removed] ]The True Cost of High-Quality Child Care Across the United States
[4] [ [link removed] ]Average cost of child care hit $10,600 in 2021
[5] [ [link removed] ]Too many parents– mostly moms– are pushed out of the workforce due
to the lack of affordable child care.


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