In a preview to the new Census Bureau data on health insurance set to be released this week, WCCF has prepared a new report outlining areas in which the new 2014 American Community Survey (ACS) data will shed light on the growth in access to health insurance since major provisions to the Affordable Care Act were implemented, as well as...
Research findings from Inequalities at the Starting Gate 2015 reinforce prior findings about unequal starts in Kindergarten. Without improved opportunities for young children and families at or near poverty, the achievement gap is likely to continue and even widen. Here is an excerpt from the report: “This analysis affirms decades of...
Labor Day celebrates contributions that workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country. The holiday makes me think about the hard-working families with young children in Wisconsin and across the country struggling to make ends meet financially while ensuring that their young children have a good start. This...
The Committee for Economic Development (CED) has issued a report, Child Care in State Economies, in which “the economic role of the industry is examined using three distinct perspectives—the traditional labor force view of child care as a means for parents to work; the child care industry’s macroeconomic role in the U.S. economy; and...
A New York Times blog, Bedtime Stories for Young Brains, provides a fascinating discussion of how reading to young children affects their development. We know reading to children from the start is good for children, but the new research explains why. Dr, John Hutton, the lead author of a recent study, says, “I think that we’ve learned...
Imagine if the state issued just one driver’s license per family and continued to prohibit people from driving without a state-issued driver’s license. Needless to say, state lawmakers wouldn’t subject themselves and their families to that sort of extremely problematic approach to requiring a photo ID for driving. Yet a bill that got a...
A Washington Post business page article, The surprising number of parents scaling back at work to care for kids, examines parents’ struggle with child care and work. According to the article, “While it has long been clear that finding affordable, dependable child care is a daily challenge for parents of young children, the new poll...
Three different documents released this week – using different data sources – shed light on the dramatic improvements in access to health insurance that have occurred under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including continued improvements in the first half of 2015. Here are the highlights from the new data sources, some of which include...
This week is National Health Center Week 2015 and the 50th anniversary of the beginning of Community Health Centers (CHCs). Community Health Centers (CHC) are an integral part of the health care safety net for underserved communities across the nation and in Wisconsin. Their doors are open to all – regardless of their insurance status....
Eleanor Clift asks Can This Save Early Childhood Education? in an article in the Daily Beast discussing social impact bonds for funding early education programs. The article discusses innovative approaches in a white paper released on Capitol Hill recently. “The basic idea is private investors loan money to social service providers who...
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