Child Care & Early Learning

Smart Healthy Kids

Early Learning with Funding from Tobacco Tax

President Obama’s proposal would ensure that 2 million low- and moderate-income children have access to high-quality preschool — and it would prevent 1.7 million kids from smoking. Find out more at

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Download our toolkit for early learning advocates!

Get our new toolkit with talking points and details on planning your advocacy activities over the August recess and beyond!

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Leaning in with Child Care

Leaning in with Child Care

On 5/9, NWLC's Helen Blank participated in a discussion on child care jobs and the need for quality, affordable care. 

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Impact of Sequestration State by State

How will the March 1st across-the-board cuts impact children?

Our interactive map shows the impact of sequestration on CCDBG and Head Start in each state.

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Child Care & Early Learning Experts Discuss Reforms

On 9/27, NWLC's Helen Blank spoke on a NAF panel of experts in child care and early learning.

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Quality Jobs and Quality Care
Impact of Sequestration
Reforming Child Care

Highlights

Reports & Toolkits | A Strong Start Makes a Difference

September 13, 2013

Early Learning! Lots of people are talking about it and we wanted to hear from the educators and parents who regularly witness the powerful effects of high-quality early learning. We asked individuals across the country to tell us about their experiences and what early learning has meant to the children in their lives.

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Fact Sheet | Proposed Statutory & Regulatory Changes to CCDBG

July 22, 2013

This chart compares current law governing the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) with provisions of the reauthorization bill and proposed regulations.

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Fact Sheet | Impact of Sequestration Cuts on Head Start, Child Care and Early Education: State and Local Examples

July 15, 2013

This chart summarizes the impact of the Sequestration cuts to early childhood programs in the states.

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Fact Sheet | High-Quality Prekindergarten Is a Wise Investment

March 8, 2013

Early education helps prepare children to succeed in school and in life. This fact sheet summarizes the beneifts of Prekindergarten.

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Reports & Toolkits | Downward Slide: State Child Care Assistance Policies 2012

October 11, 2012

The National Women's Law Center's 9th annual review of key child care subsidy policies in all fifty states and the District of Columbia reveals that families were worse off in 27 states than they were in 2011 under one or more child care assistance policies.  Families are not only worse off in 2012 than they were in 2011, but are also worse off than a decade ago.  

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More Resources

Coalition Action Materials | Coalition Letter and Comments on Early Learning Challenge Initiative

June 03, 2011

On June 3, 2011, members of the Child Care and Early Learning Coalition submitted a letter and comments to Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and the Administration in regards to the new Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge initiative. The Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge’s goal is to incentivize states to create systems for improving the quality of early learning settings for children ages birth to five and increase disadvantaged children’s access to higher-quality early learning programs.

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Fact Sheet | One-Sided Budget Proposals Threaten Women and Families, Shield Millionaires and Corporations

May 20, 2011

Explanation of how proposals for a global spending cap – which could be part of legislation or a proposed constitutional amendment – could force drastic cuts to programs that millions of women and families depend on, dismantling Medicare, Medicaid, and other critical programs, while doing nothing to restrain tax cuts for the rich and corporations.

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Webinars & Presentations | Presentation on Child Care Assistance and School Readiness

May 20, 2011

At the 2011 National Smart Start Conference, Helen Blank and Karen Schulman presented on states’ current child care assistance policies based on NWLC’s most recent report and discussed how both these policies as well as decisions about the administration of the subsidy system are connected to ensuring that children enter school ready to succeed.

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Coalition Action Materials | Coalition Letter In Support of Early Childhood Funding for FY 2012 Appropriations

May 18, 2011

On May 18, 2011, the Child Care and Early Learning Coalition sent a sign-on letter to the chairs and ranking minority members of the Appropriations Committees and the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services in support of early childhood programs for the FY 2012 appropriations process.

A copy of the coalition sign-on letter can be downloaded below.

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Webinars & Presentations | Audio Recording and Transcript for Early Childhood: What Happened in FY 2011 CR and What's Next for FY 2012

May 02, 2011

Helen Blank from the National Women's Law Center (NWLC) discusses how the budget increases in FY 2011 affect the current gaps in child care and early learning, implementation issues around the competitive grant program to improve state early child care and education systems, and implications of the FY 2012 budget decisions for early childhood programs as well as other key supports for low-income children and families.

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