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Federal Government Launches First-of-Its-Kind Center for Early Childhood Workforce

ED Surge

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been following the situation — with eyes, especially, on the early care and education workforce, says Katie Hamm, deputy assistant secretary for early childhood development at the department’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF). government.

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Inside Canada’s 50-year fight for national child care

The Hechinger Report

This movement came after decades of structured, organized advocacy , much of which started after the commission’s report. That argument has helped build support, said Morna Ballantyne, executive director of Child Care Now, an advocacy association in Canada. In 1997, Quebec began offering low-cost, flat-fee child care.

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What We Can Learn From Red States' Approaches to Child Care Challenges

ED Surge

State match to local investments A partnership between local and state governments with revenue from sin taxes like those on gambling is expanding access to child care for those who need the most help. Multiple advocacy organizations are pushing to increase the eligibility threshold for the program (now 150% of the federal poverty line).

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Many ‘informal’ child care providers are entitled to pay. Most don’t know it

The Hechinger Report

Hunt-Fleming, who has worked for years as a mortgage funder and is certified in human services, also stepped in when the next three grandchildren – now ages 2, 6, and 9 – came along. Hunt-Fleming spends whatever hours she can on advocacy work for her colleagues through a program called California Leading from Home.

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Eligible for job and college aid, half of Tennesseans with disabilities get nothing

The Hechinger Report

Indeed in 2016 the federal government designated Tennessee’s VR grant “high risk” for most of the year, due to the state’s repeated inability to track how much money was being spent and on what. If you support people with disabilities in jobs that they want to do, they will actually be much less dependent on government services.”.

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OPINION: Want to save the beleaguered English major? Abandon it.

The Hechinger Report

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. Still, my reaction to the current dialogue about humanities is this: The best way to save the English major is to abandon it. The English major (like many other majors in the humanities and sciences), goes back much further than that.

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Eligible but got nothing: Hundreds of thousands of people with disabilities blocked from college aid

The Hechinger Report

The delays lead to missed job and educational opportunities and longer government dependence, all at a cost to taxpayers. Walker supported moving people from government assistance to work. She called an advocacy hotline, appealed the decision and won, although it took several more months before she was reimbursed.

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