Tag: wage scale
Reinforcements Forthcoming for Embattled Early Childhood Workforce
December 9th, 2021
Delaware and the nation’s child care crisis has hit like a perfect storm—impacting not only families and providers, but the economy at large. Nowhere has the storm battered more fiercely than the early childhood workforce itself—where low pay and long hours often mean struggling to pay bills and find care for their own children. A...VIEW ARTICLE
Promising Signs Ahead for Early Learning Workforce
May 18th, 2021
Over the past year, the early childhood industry and workforce has plunged into crisis from the COVID-19 pandemic. As we wrote in March, the child care industry faced crisis conditions even before COVID-19 due to the poor compensation of early learning professionals and the negative impact it has on both educator wellbeing and the quality...VIEW ARTICLE