Infographics, Issue Briefs, Blogs, and Reports
Issue Briefs, Blogs & Polling
- Pathways to High-Quality Child Care: The Workforce Investment Credit (Committee for Economic Development, 2019)
- Mixed Delivery Preschool Issue Brief (CCANJ, 2015)
- Our Child Care Crisis is the Result of Underinvestment, not Overregulation (NAEYC, 2020)
- Understanding Single Parents’ Use of Informal Care (Bipartisan Policy Center blog, September 2022)
- Untangling Family, Friend, and Neighbor Care (Bipartisan Policy Center blog, September 2022)
- Boost the Economy by Boosting Child Care (Op Ed, U.S. News & World Report, September 19, 2022)
- Survey Results: How Work and Child Care are Changing, (Bipartisan Policy Center, Blog, June 2021) Toplines, Slides, Resource Main page
- Child Care in Rural America – What Have We Learned? (Bipartisan Policy Center, October 2021)
- What Keeps Employed Parents out of the Child Care System? (Bipartisan Policy Center, August 2022), Blog, Toplines, Slides, Webinar Recording
- Survey Results: What Keeps Employed Parents out of the Child Care System? (Bipartisan Policy Center, August 2022)
- Understanding Single Parents’ Use of Informal Care (Bipartisan Policy Center, September 6, 2022)
Reports
New Jersey Child Care Landscape
- New Jersey 2020 Strategic Plan Preschool Development Grant Birth through 5 (PDG B-5)
- New Jersey 2019 Needs Assessment Preschool Development Grant Birth through 5 (PDG B-5)
- Understanding the Early Child Care Landscape in New Jersey (New Jersey Community Capital and Rutgers Edward Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, 2021)
- Infant and Toddler Child Care Data Needs in New Jersey (National Institute for Early Education Research, 2022)
- 2021 Child Care Market Rate Survey Report (Rutgers University, July 2022)
- New Jersey Strategic Plan for Preschool Expansion, Phase 1: The Foundation (October 2022)
- Head Start and Early Head Start NJ Profile (NIEER, January 2023)
- New Jersey Preschool Development Grant, 2016 Annual Performance Report
- Child Care Aware of New Jersey The Raising of America Report (CCANJ, 2016)
- The State of Preschool Yearbook 2021 (National Institute for Early Education Research, 2022), New Jersey Profile
- State(s) of Head Start and Early Head Start: Looking at Equity (National Institute for Early Education Research, 2022), New Jersey Profile
New Jersey Early Childhood Workforce
- NJ Early Childhood Workforce Profile (Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2020)
- New Jersey’s Childcare Landscape During COVID-19: A Slow and Uneven Recovery (Rutgers NJ State Policy Lab, School of Management and Labor Relations, Center for Women and Work, 2021)
- Carrots and Sticks: New Jersey’s Effort To Create a Qualified PK-3 Workforce (Foundation for Child Development, 2006)
Nutrition:
- Hunger and Its Solutions in New Jersey: Landscape Analysis of Current Initiatives, Recommended Action, and Emerging Opportunities for Further Investment (Food Research & Action Center, FRAC, 2022)
- Food for Thought: The State of Afterschool Meals in New Jersey (Hunger Free New Jersey, 2019)
- Addressing Childhood Obesity in New Jersey (2012)
National Child Care Reports:
- Strategies for States to Improve Safety Net Program Access (Urban Institute, 2022)
- Ways States Can Make Child Care Subsidies More Accessible (Urban Institute, 2022)
- The Economic Role of Paid Child Care in the U.S. – A Report Series (Committee for Economic Development, 2022)
- Prevalence of Chronic Diseases, Depression, and Stress Among US Childcare Professionals During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Elharake JA, Shafiq M, Cobanoglu A, Malik AA, Klotz M, Humphries JE, Gilliam, W. et al, September 2022 – CDC web site)
- Catalyzing Growth: Using Data to Change Child Care (Child Care Aware of America, 2022)
- Start with Equity: Advancing Equity in Early Care and Education Systems with the American Rescue Plan Act (Children’s Equity Project, June 2021)
- Kids’ Share 2021: Report on Federal Expenditures on Children (Urban Institute, 2021)
- Snapshot of Demand for and Policies for Nontraditional-Hours (Urban Institute, 2021)
- Demanding Change: Repairing our Child Care System (Child Care Aware of America, 2021)
- Start with Equity: From the Early Years to the Early Grades (Children’s Equity Project, October 2020)
- The Early Childhood Workforce Index (Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2020)
- Child Care in State Economies: 2019 Update (Committee for Economic Development, 2019)
- The U.S. and the High Price of Child Care (Child Care Aware of America, 2019)
- The Shifting Supply of Regulated Family Child Care in the U.S., A Literature Review and Conceptual Model (Erikson, 2021)
- From the Ground Up: Improving Child Care and Early Learning Facilities (Bipartisan Policy Center, May 2019)
- Early Learning Facilities Policy Framework (Bipartisan Policy Center, November 2018)
- Increasing Access to Child Care for Priority Populations (Urban Institute, 2018)
- The Effects of Child Care Subsidies on Maternal Labor Force (HHS, ASPE, 2016)