Learn more about the state of quality child care for babies in America and the critical components needed to ensure progress and success for young children now and well into their futures.
The Child Care Modernization Act Fails to Deliver Real Solutions to the Child Care Crisis
The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), which provides essential federal child care funding to states, is desperately underfunded and not designed to address the full scope of the child care crisis facing America. The Child Care Modernization Act is not the answer.
Through the lens of the National Diaper Bank Network, this article identifies diaper insecurity as a public health issue and examines its effects on child health, development, parental well-being, and access to child care and employment, while highlighting the importance of investments in diapers, health care, child care, and family support programs to help children thrive.