Invest in high-quality, affordable child care for infants and toddlers.
Quality child care feeds a baby’s growing brain, building the foundation for development and life-long learning. Access to affordable, high-quality care ensures parents can go to work and school confident that their babies and toddlers are in safe and nurturing early learning environments.
Ensure that quality, affordable child care, and other programs babies need, are a top priority this Congress by contacting your policymakers now.
America’s child care system is in crisis: families are facing higher and higher costs, even as care providers can’t afford to keep the doors open. Robust federal investment is urgently needed to keep providers in business and ensure families can access affordable, quality care for their infants and toddlers where and when they need it.
Boost funding to expand child care access and oppose cuts to essential child care funding streams that existing providers rely on.
Child care is an essential building block in the foundation of our families’ and country’s future. Learn more about what’s at stake if Congress fails to invest in child care.
Increasing access to high-quality, affordable child care will ensure providers are compensated sufficiently to provide badly needed child care, more families can enter the workforce, and more babies and toddlers arrive at school ready to learn.
Child Care Advocacy Toolkit: Use these tools to urge your policymakers to Think Babies and make quality, affordable child care a reality for all working families.
America’s Future Depends on Quality Child Care: Learn about the state of quality child care for babies in America and the critical components needed to ensure success for young children and their futures.
Research-Tested Messages on Child Care: Check out messages and tools designed to educate and inspire action among key stakeholders in your community.
State of Babies Yearbook: 2023: Use national and state-by-state data on the well-being of infants and toddlers to call on federal, state, and local policymakers to improve outcomes for babies and families.