Last week, the ever amazing Dr. Debra Messenger testified in the Education Finance Committee of #mnleg about why the childcare affordability bill is so important not only for families, but for keeping childcare centers OPEN! #affordablechildcare #SolveChildCare #mnleg

We sure do! ♥️

The #CareCantWait campaign & larger care movement is intersectional, strategic, beautiful, magical, and united like never before. We're actually centering the folks most impacted.

That's why we're going to win #childcare , #paidleave , #paidsickdays , #homecare , and more.

Caregiving jobs often have low pay and few benefits – and that is not by chance. ”Women’s work” has often involved care work, disproportionately performed by Black and Brown women who lack access to #PaidLeave and #PaidSickDays National Partnership npwf.info/3J63tsH

“We’re the richest country in the history of the world…every educator should be making at least $60K/year. Don’t ever ever let anyone devalue what you’re doing.”

Bernie Sanders arm-in-arm with home care workers saying #CareCantWait !

Yes! Imagine what we can get done working together!

#affordablechildcare #SolveChildCare

Wishing a Happy Eid to our many Muslim childcare providers, teachers, families, and kids! #Eidmubarak2024

It's Music Monday of Week of the Young Child! We're celebrating by joining the chorus for change!
We are past the point where elected officials must value, support, and compensate early childhood educators for the complex and important work they do! #WOYC24 #SolveChildCare

So deeply impacting parents, especially mothers.

#affordablechildcare #SolveChildCare #mnleg

Check out Laura Delventhal 's testimony from last week on childcare affordability!

Her family paid $39,000 a year for two kids in childcare. You read that number correctly. We can do better #mnleg !

#affordablechildcare #SolveChildCare #GreatStartMN

Great coverage of yesterday’s Senate hearing on childcare affordability. #affordablechildcare

Proposed child care subsidy program, school districts will not receive major funding minnesotareformer.com/2024/04/04/pro… via Minnesota Reformer

.Erin Maye Quade pays HALF of her legislator salary to cover childcare costs. Half, btw, is WAY more than the recommendation of no more than 7% of a family's income.

It's time for #affordablechildcare #mnleg !

Chair Mary K Kunesh provides childcare for her granddaughters on Fridays. Their other grandparents take Mondays. She knows just how much of a burden childcare costs are for MN families! #affordablechildcare #mnleg #SolveChildCare

'Childcare centers close because they cannot afford to stay open.' - Dr. Debra Messenger

It's just this simple. Lowering costs for families will keep centers open! #affordablechildcare #mnleg

KCOU leader Dr. Debra Messenger on #childcareaffordability 'We charge our families the lowest amount we possibly can to pay our bills. But the lowest amount we can charge families is still far more than families can afford, which is why SF3790 is so important.' #mnleg

'A few thousand dollars, that is what stands between my youngest son having quality childcare he deserves, and me having enough money in my budget to make ends meet' Ericca Maas of Think Small quoting MN single parent Daniel Rogge. #affordablechildcare

'I'm 29 years in the field and I have never made what would be considered a living wage...SF3790 also supports the workforce...by allowing providers to receive the true cost of care.' - Karen DeVos, rural MN childcare provider. #affordablechildcare #mnleg

Parent Laura Delventhal testifying on childcare affordability with her 5 month old (and 5 and 8 year olds).

'We paid over $39,000 per year [for childcare], a far cry from Minnesota’s stated goal of no more than 7% of a family’s income...' #affordablechildcare #mnleg

And we're underway! Grant Hauschild is presenting SF3790 to lower childcare costs for MN families to ensure that no family pays more than 7% of their income for childcare #mnleg #affordablechildcare