Publications
Explore our publications from the last two decades.
Welcoming Savitha Moorthy, Our New Executive Director
April 8, 2026 • Blog
We are delighted to welcome Savitha Moorthy as CSCCE’s new Executive Director, who will start with the Center in early May. Savitha comes to CSCCE most recently from Tandem, Partners…
Early Educators Increasingly Depend on Medi-Cal
April 8, 2026 • Brief • By Anna Powell, Wanzi Muruvi and Abby Copeman Petig
This profile draws on data gathered as part of the 2025 California Early Care and Workforce Study with funding from the California Department of Social Services, the Heising-Simons Foundation, the…
“A Weight Off Our Shoulders:” Pandemic Payments to Early Educators in Riverside County, California
April 3, 2026 • Report • By Wanzi Muruvi, Anna Powell, Yoonjeon Kim and Abby Copeman Petig
This evaluation was generously funded by First 5 Riverside County. Early educators often choose to work with children out of passion, but their hard work earns them low wages in…
March 13, 2026 • Data Snapshot • By Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (CSCCE)
This dashboard publishes quarterly job numbers and the number of child care programs across the United States from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’s Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages…
March 12, 2026 • Report • By Wanzi Muruvi, Elena Ojeda, Carly Hyland, Anna Powell and Abby Copeman Petig
This report was produced by CSCCE in partnership with UC Berkeley Equity and Excellence in Early Childhood (E3C). The January 2025 wildfires, considered the most catastrophic in the history of Los…
Early Educator Compensation Works: Evidence on Impacts, Funding Models, and Policy Lessons
March 2, 2026 • Fact Sheet • By Hyeonjeong Lee and Silvia Muñoz
This report was generously supported by the W. Clement & Jessie V. Stone Foundation. Emerging evidence shows that compensation initiatives can make a difference in supporting the early care and…