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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,...

Vote for Child Care – Nov 4, 2022

  Vote Like Child Care Matters Because It Really Does We couldn’t say it better than Marissa Christie, President & CEO of the United Way of Bucks County. Here is her recently published commentary in the Bucks County Courier Times on why child care is a...

Health crisis wrapped in a child care crisis – Oct 14, 2022

  Where is the Light at the End of the Tunnel?   Shocking news this week that we’re not taking care of the ones who care for our children, according to the Yale Child Study Center. The child care crisis is even worse than we imagined. On top of being appallingly...

Are Your Candidates on the Record? – Oct 7, 2022

  Getting Candidates on the Record    Remember when Clint Eastwood berated an empty chair in the 2012 GOP National Convention? Well, we’re starting to understand his frustration because we’ve had 21 empty chairs at the Child Care Voters Candidate Conversations...