State home visiting administrators and local program leaders can leverage available federal funds and local partnerships to ensure more families have access to the diapers they need.
Throughout the pandemic, home-based child care providers have maintained an essential service, but now they face burn out from workforce shortages and need efforts to support their health and well-being.
Often overlooked in discussions about child care, home-based providers offer many positive services for children and families that state policymakers can support by better directing existing set-aside funding.
Families working nontraditional hours face challenges finding child care, and child care services they do use tend to receive less support from public funds.
Our State-by-State Spending on Kids Dataset offers the most comprehensive account of public spending on children available, and it gives state and federal administrators the data they need to make informed decisions amid pandemic relief.
