National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)

Affordable, accessible, high-quality childcare is an essential component of any effort to transform the lives of working families—a reality the pandemic has only elevated and clarified. Yet the financing of the childcare system is deeply troubled, and our nation requires a significant shift in the behaviors and mindsets of employers and policymakers to advance a comprehensive solution to the expanding crisis in childcare. Alongside efforts focused on growing federal and state investments in childcare, NAEYC is looking to bring together employers and working families with low-incomes, including early childhood educators themselves, to explore viable policy, financing and tax strategies, as well as communications and messaging strategies, to support changing priorities of employers around child care, and the expansion of employer-supported child care as part of a solution to a complex challenge.