12/28/2025
Great article from Lydia Pietruszewski.
“Let me be clear that we need and want all types of child care. We need family care providers, we need child care centers, we need culturally relevant child care options, we need family, friend and neighbor care — all of it.
It takes a village to raise a child — why on earth would we want to limit our options?”
Childcare is not only a public good, but critical to economic development. When a community cannot provide enough and affordable childcare, we lose out on a skilled workforce.
Our system is underfunded and collapsing because too many elected officials don’t believe child care is a public good.
