Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
Latest from CSCCE
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Beyond Rosie: What World War II Child Care Did—and Didn’t—Deliver
Lessons from early federal investments to guide today’s fight for universal child care.
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Good Jobs in Early Care and Education: Building Better Working Conditions
Three toolkits offer concrete steps on how to improve working conditions.
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Building the Conditions for Early Educator Compensation: Lessons From Louisiana
A case study of Louisiana’s long-term approach to workforce compensation. How Louisiana built the foundation for lasting early educator compensation.
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Head Start’s False Choice: Expanding Access by Weakening the Workforce
How proposed changes would impact the workforce and children in their classrooms.
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Can’t Compete With Free: How Transitional Kindergarten Has Destabilized California’s Child Care Sector
ECE programs grapple with the unintended consequences of TK expansion.
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Listening to Early Educators of Color: Lived Experiences Reflect the Multilayered Effects of Racism
This report centers the lived experiences and voices of California’s ECE educators of color.
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How Administrative Leadership Has Shaped Early Care and Education Reform in Washington, D.C., and Colorado
How Washington, D.C. and Colorado have built ECE systems that can sustain investment over time.
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Immigrants Are at the Heart of Child Care in the Silicon Valley
New data shows immigrant early educators and families in Silicon Valley have a lot in common.
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When Early Educators Brought Child Care Inside a D.C. Government Building
D.C. early educators transform City Hall to protect the Pay Equity Fund.
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Reliance on Early Care and Education During Public Health Crises: A “Necessary Evil” or a Public Good?
The dual role of child care workers as public health workers during the 1918 Flu and Covid-19 Pandemics.
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Key Facts
Child care workers earn an average of $13.22 an hour
Teachers need access to health insurance. Marketplace “affordable” healthcare insurance is hardly affordable on a teacher’s income.
—Lauri Strauss, Lead Preschool Teacher
Calif. home-based providers average 17 years of experience but earn as little as $16,000 a year
“There’s going to be a lot more of us closing down, as it gets harder and harder to compete with ‘free’ and compete with the marketing of, ‘Your kids should go to TK,’”
Rachel Bymun
Owner and Director
Luv Muffins Preschool & Childcare
