Time to end decades of Grinch energy around child care!
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Dear Friend,
This Sunday marks 51 years since President Nixon vetoed a real national
childcare program, the Comprehensive Child Development Act (the ultimate
Grinch act!), which prevented the implementation of a multibillion-dollar
national child care system. It also marks the last time there was a major
Congressional push for child care!
[ [link removed] ]Tell Congress: Enough with the Grinch spirit, grow your heart three
sizes and save child care now!
I don’t know about you, but this makes me want to rage scream into a
Christmas stocking. 50+ YEARS OF DELAYS? Our families have been struggling
for 51 years with no support because of the actions of one man?
You’re a mean one, Mr. Nixon, and unfortunately Republicans in Congress
have followed in his ice-cold Grinchy footsteps by allowing critical child
care stabilization funds to expire this past September, knowing full well
that 3.2 million children could lose their access to child care, childcare
centers will close, and childcare professionals will lose their jobs as a
result. These funds were crucial to saving an already broken child care
industry from total collapse during pandemic times, and are crucial now as
child care remains in crisis. Families and providers have already felt the
impact of these cuts: last month 29% of families reported an increase in
their child care tuition, 28% of child care providers experienced wage
cuts or were unable to sustain salary increases, and 24% of providers
reported that they are now serving fewer children. [1]
This is why we are urging Congress to finally move away from the Grinch
agenda they’ve stuck to for decades and provide at least $16 billion per
year in emergency child care dollars, while ensuring no cuts to child care
and early learning programs. This is the only way to address a 50 plus
year crisis without creating yet another crisis by not ensuring these
supplemental funds pass for our families. 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] ]Families around the country value child care a lot, but too many
Grinches in Congress do not! Take action to sign our letter and say
“Congress must fund child care today!”
For over 50 years there has basically been no progress when it comes to
child care affordability and access, if anything our nation has slid
backward on care while our families continue to struggle. How did this
happen?
In 1971, leaders like Dorothy Bolden, Shirley Chisholm, Marian Wright
Edelman, and Evelyn Moore made serious moves to support families by
leading campaigns that brought about the Comprehensive Child Development
Act of 1971, promoting child care workers as "middle-class experts"
deserving of fair wages for the service they provide working families.
Buoyed by support from labor unions, it passed both houses of Congress
with bipartisan majorities.[2]
This bill would also put control of publicly-funded child care centers in
the hands of local leaders, including in Black and communities of color,
instead of state governments which are often white-led. As a means to keep
their hold on segregation, conservative activists lobbied heavily against
the bill, and based on this the then President Nixon issued his veto 51
years ago today.
[ [link removed] ]ACT NOW to urge Congress to pass $16 billion dollars emergency funding
for child care!
**After you sign on, please share the link on your social media and with
family. The more of us who raise our voices, the faster we’ll have an
impact together (Thank you!)
Congress needs to stop upholding the legacy of this decades-old disaster.
If anything, perhaps they should be more like the Grinch, where at the
very end of his story he chooses to do better, be better, and finally be
nice to kids and families!
Thank you for continuing to take action in our movement for quality,
affordable and accessible child care!
-Nadia, Nina, Elyssa, Lauren, Donna, Kristin, Hanna and the whole
[ [link removed] ]MomsRising.org/[ [link removed] ]MamásConPoder Team
[ [link removed] ]P.S. Check out our quick video explainer on the Nixon veto and learn
exactly why we "blame Dick" for the lack of access to affordable child
care!
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