Topic: The Need

• Lack of Access to Child Care Impacts Child Well-Being

• New GAO Report Highlights Family Child Care Networks

• Federal Investments are the Foundation for State and Local Early Care and Education Programs

• Child Care Provider Reimbursement Rates Explained

• Inequitable Infant and Toddler Discipline Practices and the Need for Better Data

• New Funding Opportunity Encourages ECE & Child Welfare Collaboration

• New Report Shows States are Making Progress in Creating Integrated ECE Systems

• FFYF Federal Guide to Early Learning and Care Programs

• Early Learning and Child Care: Unaffordable, Unattainable, Unsustainable

• Spotlighting Contributions of Latinx Educators and Inclusive Programs in the ECE Field

• New Data Finds Child Care Prices Continue to Rise Ahead of Midterm Elections, Outpacing Inflation & Following Decades-Long Trend of Annual Increases

• ACF Releases Guidance to Increase ECE Workforce Compensation and Supports

• FFYF’s 2022 Child Care & Early Learning State Fact Sheets

• Sky-High Child Care Prices Aren’t New. But They’re Getting Worse.

• Dear Colleague Letter on Young Children’s Social-Emotional Development and Mental Health