Another financial breakdown looms – Mar 17, 2023

  Sounding the Alarm on Child Care Collapse Billions of dollars are at stake in the recent bank closures in the U.S. Financial forecasters are alarmed about the possible fallout without lawmaker action, including widespread layoffs and company closures. Nearly $7...

REPORT: The High Cost of Working in Early Childhood Education

There is no doubt that high-quality early childhood education (ECE) is a win for everyone – children, parents, employers, and our economy. Yet this critical sector is on the brink of a breakdown.  To understand the depth of the stress on the child care sector,...

The child care system is broken – Dec 16, 2022

  Pushing Kids to the Front  We can’t stop thinking about a young woman we met recently who worked at Burger King for years. She was excited to finally get hired for a job at Penn in a position that paid much more and offered a promising career. The problem...

A Toilet on the State Capitol Steps?! – Dec 9, 2022

  Prevent Our Kids’ Futures from Going Down the Drain At least once a week, people ask us the same question: why did you put a toilet on the Capitol steps?   After years of using charts and graphs to prove that students in Pennsylvania were harmed by the...

Your Hard Work Paid Off for Kids! – Nov 11, 2022

  The Results Are In – You Voted for Kids! You made it happen. The election results are in, and Pennsylvania children and youth are the winners. Lines were long but, thankfully, you waited your turn and cast your ballot for candidates who understand that,...