I'll be working to incorporate more of my org's policy activities to this framework, and using this language to confidently update funders and partners. Policy "wins" aren't always shiny new investments. Holding ground, building consensus, and improving implementation all MATTER

Oh England. #Ashes2025

I suppose the question is, do you WANT your kids' child care center to open the door for a group of strangers in masks and an unmarked car, lest they be accused of fraudulent operations? I sure don't. Fraud is unacceptable and should be stamped out. Propaganda is propaganda.

The cruelty is the point, I believe the phrase goes. nypost.com/2026/01/05/us-…

Torpedoing the child care system in five states — CA, NY, MN, CO and IL — that all contain competitive House races is an interesting midterm strategy.

NEW YORK (AP) — Judge stops the Trump administration’s freeze on child care and other social service funding for 5 states for now.

San Francisco announces plans to provide free childcare for kids aged 5 and under in families earning less than $230,000 per year and cover half of expenses for families making up to $310,000

In the past three months, the NYT has featured comments from James Carville, David Plouffe & Bernie Sanders all calling for universal child care. That's basically every wing of the party. In a remarkably short period, universal child care has become the mainstream Dem position --

No mention of vaccination.... For anyone interested in making evidence-based medical decisions: It's not too late to get a flu vaccine, and the benefits greatly outweigh the risks.

Today, January 23, we celebrate a leader and activist in the Disability Rights Movement and "Father of Independent Living," Ed Roberts. Ed aimed to tear down the barriers that prevented people with disabilities from exercising their rights to be integrated into society. His

A daily reminder that an immigrant didn’t steal your wages or take away your pension, a billionaire did. Over the last 50 years, $79 trillion has been stolen from the bottom 90% by the top 1% while billionaires pay a lower tax rate than a truck driver, teacher or nurse.

Losing 50% of child care educators each year to places like McDonald's is not sustainable and is not good for kids-- and there's no way for the market to fix it. Direct public investment in early educators is a prerequisite for a functional child care system.

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Research from Stanford University shows that universal child care could add billions to CA's economy. Every dollar invested in early childhood returns three dollars or more. Read more from the First 5 Association on our blog: bit.ly/3NYCeWV #EarlyChildhood

The next Tottenham Hotspur manager doesn't matter if they don't get the rest of their house in order first thetransferflow.com/p/thomas-frank…

I'm in The 74 today unpacking a seemingly odd trend: how is it that many parents can't find a child care slot at the same time many child care programs are significantly under-enrolled?

How much can unauthorized immigration explain recent swings in employment growth? A new Economic Letter finds a nearly one-for-one causal effect on employment growth during both the recent rapid rise and slowdown in unauthorized immigration. sffed.us/4aymVM3

This isn't the way. The issue isn't free vs. not-free. The issue is economic: because maximum adult-to-child ratios are much lower for toddlers than for 4-year-olds (e.g., 1:4 vs. 1:8), early care and education programs -- nonprofit, faith-based, and for-profit alike -- tend to

My club just did the most incredible 9 minutes in football. #TOTCRY

"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare