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California’s early educators can’t afford to retire

May 11, 2022 • Blog • By Anna Powell

Early care and education (ECE) teachers face chronically low wages, both in California and around the country. However, low earnings are not the only reason early educators worry about…

Child Care Sector Jobs: BLS Analysis

May 10, 2022 • Brief • By Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (CSCCE)

Employment recovery in the early care and education sector remains stagnant. While some jobs returned, the workforce is 11 percent smaller than at the outset of the pandemic, as wages…

Impacts of COVID-19 on the early care and education sector in California: Variations across program types

May 5, 2022 • Peer-Reviewed Article • By Yoonjeon Kim, Elena Montoya, Sean Doocy, Lea J.E. Austin and Marcy Whitebook

In this article, published in the 3rd Quarter 2022 volume of Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Dr. Kim, Ms. Montoya, and co-authors highlight how the impacts of COVID-19 systematically varied between…

How to restore California’s ailing child care system: Pay the teachers

April 27, 2022 • Blog • By Lea J.E. Austin

Covid-19 brought California’s already-ailing child care system to its knees. If you work in child care or are a parent, you are intimately familiar with this reality. If you are…

“The Forgotten Ones”—The Economic Well-Being of Early Educators During COVID-19

February 16, 2022 • Brief • By Anna Powell, Raúl Chávez, Lea J.E. Austin, Elena Montoya, Yoonjeon Kim and Abby Copeman Petig

This report provides a closer look at the well-being of the early care and education (ECE) workforce in California, using data collected by the Center for the Study of Child…

Education and Experience of the California ECE Workforce

February 7, 2022 • Data Snapshot • By Yoonjeon Kim, Lea J.E. Austin, Elena Montoya and Anna Powell

This publication is part of CSCCE’s 2020 California Early Care and Education (ECE) Workforce Study, the first comprehensive study of early educators in the state in…

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It is so unjust that the #earlyeducators who have cared for and taught California's children can't afford to retire View our latest research at https://cscce.berkeley.edu/blog/californias-early-educators-cant-afford-to-retire/

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@DanWuori @CSCCEUCB The retirement crisis for early educators is real

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