Facing the heat
Child care providers are essential to meeting young children’s social, emotional, and development needs. To ensure that all families and children can access high-quality, reliable care, and that all child care providers can truly thrive, we need sustained investments in child care.
We can and should provide for providers
Child care providers are essential to meeting young children’s social, emotional, and development needs. To ensure that all families and children can access high-quality, reliable care, and that all child care providers can truly thrive, we need sustained investments in child care.
Not a moment to wait: Climate action, young children and the hope for change
The next few years are critical to assuring reduced carbon emissions and improvements in the environments where children live and grow.
Young children, families, and our economy gain when we invest in early childhood
Our policies reinforce parents’ lack of resources during early childhood, instead of counteracting it during this critical period. Let’s do more to support families.
Two Years in the Life of a Pandemic: Listening To the Voices of Parents
The topics and trends that RAPID has followed for the past two years provide a living record of the pandemic. However, these issues didn’t begin in 2020 and the challenges will remain in the lives of our survey families well after the pandemic has faded into history.
How Child Tax Credit Payments Affected the Lives of Families with Young Children
From July to December 2021, millions of American families received monthly payments through an expanded Child Tax Credit. We look back at these stories to explore families’ experiences.
Child Care: The time has come to bring this one home for families
1971 was the year I started my first job. It was the year that featured movies like Clockwork Orange and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. It was the year the first e-mail was sent, the year Elon Musk was born and the year President Nixon vetoed the Comprehensive Child Development Act, setting public financing of child care in the United States back for years to come.
When We Talk About Mothers and Work During the Pandemic, Words Matter
This Sunday we all need to take a minute to acknowledge how hard mothers have been hit by the pandemic.Nearly four times more women than men have lost jobs since the beginning of pandemic and data suggest that it’s been worse still for working mothers.
Overloaded: Families With Children Who Have Special Needs Are Bearing an Especially Heavy Weight, And Support Is Needed
Due to the pandemic, families with children who have special needs are experiencing interruptions in healthcare and decreased social support.
Facing Hunger: The Weight of the Pandemic Is Falling on American Families
American Families are struggling to afford food and being forced to decide which basic needs they can afford and which they will go without this holiday season.
Home Alone: The Pandemic Is Overloading Single-parent Families
Many single parents are lonely and overwhelmed as they face the challenges of balancing work and raising families — alone.
Returning to Care…But Worried
The gradual return of young children to non-parental care highlights the fragility of the United States’ child care infrastructure.
No Shelter From The Storm
Higher Income Isn’t Protecting Black And Latinx Families From Financial And Material Hardship During The Pandemic
Something’s Gotta Give
Parents face an untenable set of demands as schools and child care providers begin a new academic year.
Bearing Witness: Family Voices That We Can’t Ignore
Hearing the stories of RAPID survey respondents
A Hardship Chain Reaction
Financial difficulties are stressing families’ and young children’s wellbeing during the pandemic, and it could get a lot worse