Dear Friend,
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We have an EMERGENCY on our hands! Critical child care stabilization funds
that saved an already broken child care industry from total collapse
during the pandemic have expired, putting 3.2 million children at risk of
losing access to child care,[1] increasing costs for families and
worsening the ongoing crisis of early educators being pushed out of the
workforce, further exacerbating the lack of access to the care families
need.
Not. Good.
This is why Congress must prioritize providing at least $16 billion per
year in emergency child care dollars while ensuring no cuts to child care
and early learning programs–and we're inviting you to [ [link removed] ]SIGN our letter
today. This is the only way to address this crisis without creating a new
one. This will lay the groundwork for the sustained and transformative
funding needed to ensure that high-quality and affordable child care is a
reality for all families.
***[ [link removed] ]Join our Child Care Emergency Day of Action TODAY and take the
actions below to save child care for millions of families and pay early
educators the wages they deserve!***
Today we are coming together with moms, parents, caregivers, and advocates
around the country to sound the alarm demanding Congress take immediate
action to pass emergency funding for child care now! Please join us in
taking these actions:
1. [ [link removed] ]CALL your Member of Congress to tell them “Emergency funding that
saved the child care industry during the pandemic has expired and
millions of children are at risk of losing access to care. Congress
must pass emergency child care funding now!” You can use MomsRising's
[ [link removed] ]call in line–all you have to do is put in your information and your
phone will ring, connecting you directly to your congressional
offices. (We even provide you with talking points!)
2. [ [link removed] ]SIGN our letter to Congress calling on them to Save Child Care Now!
3. [ [link removed] ]Share your child care story! Have your child care costs gone up?
Congress needs to hear about it!
4. [ [link removed] ]POST to social media (Instagram, Twitter/X & Facebook) using our
[ [link removed] ]social media toolkit so you can encourage all your friends and
family to take action and speak out about child care as well. (You can
also tag @momsrising and/or @mamasconpoder in your posts!)
Taking these powerful actions can help push Congress to save child care
for millions of families. Thank you!
Already, actions from MomsRising members and our partners have had
impactful results, with President Biden recently announcing a request for
$16 billion in emergency supplemental funding for child care that is now
being pushed to Congress.
The current state of things: The pandemic exacerbated and made clear child
care struggles that families have already been facing for decades. Child
care has been unaffordable and unattainable for too many families, with
many paying a third of their take home pay to child care[2] and more than
half of the country being classified as child care deserts—areas with an
insufficient supply of licensed child care.[3]
Adding to this is the fact that early educators are not getting anywhere
near the support they need to care for our nation’s children. Real wages
for full-time child care teachers dropped 6.5 percent from 2012 to
2019.[4] Then with the pandemic more than one-third of child care
jobs—370,000 jobs in total—were lost from February 2020 to April 2020.[5]
Employment within the child care industry, unlike the overall labor market
(which has already regained all jobs lost) is still below its pre-pandemic
levels.[6] And with moms returning to the workforce in higher levels than
before, a lack of investment in care will only be disastrous for the
economic security and vitality of families.
[ [link removed] ]This is why we have to keep the drumbeat and momentum going for this
$16 Billion for child care!
We are grateful for what you do every day to support the movement for
quality, affordable and accessible child care!
-Nadia, Nina, Lauren, Elyssa, Donna, Kristin, Hanna, and the whole
MomsRising.org/MamásConPoder Team
[1] [ [link removed] ]Child Care Cliff: 3.2 Million Children Likely to Lose Spots with
End of Federal Funds
[2] [3] [4][5] [6] [ [link removed] ]The Child Care Sector Is Still Struggling To Hire
Workers
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