Velonaut, early childhood advocate, dad
New Britain, CT
Joined July 2011
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Merrill Gay retweeted
Congress Set to Approve Critical Funding Increases for Key Federal Early Childhood Education Programs ffyf.org/congress-set-to-app…
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I keep thinking about the side-by-side of these pieces, which came out within days of each other. I don’t know that the barrier now is knowledge of the problem — we need to have a serious conversation about care as a shared value, as opposed to a private market commodity.
As child care programs struggle with staffing issues there is another problem, empty wait lists. Hard to say what is cause and what is effect but this explores the issue minneapolisfed.org/article/2…
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NEW STUDY!
Our latest Yale-CARES paper, national sample of 81,682 early care & education professionals 2-3 months into pandemic — 46% with potentially diagnosable levels of depression, 67% moderate-high stress, 20% higher asthma rate. Brief thread.
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medicine.yale.edu/childstudy… – at Connecticut, USA
This is a huge step forward. Many child care workers go without health coverage because parents can't pay enough in tuition for programs to offer insurance.
Merrill Gay retweeted
Take action to urge Congress to reauthorize the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting program ffyf.quorum.us/campaign/4250…
Why does the annual company benefits meeting always leave me feeling like we couldn't have created a more convoluted, expensive system to provide health care if we tried.
Merrill Gay retweeted
Federal investments to #SolveChildCare are critical to bringing down child care costs for working families & ensuring providers are paid a living wage.
Merrill Gay retweeted
Let’s be clear: The Senate’s failure to include #ChildCare in the reconciliation framework is a devastating blow to babies, families, and providers. #ThinkBabiesandAct #SolveChildCare
NPR's Marketplace story on the broken market we call child care marketplace.org/2022/07/07/l…
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I just wrote a @theactionnet letter: Act Now: Invest in Child Care. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/ac…
Last night the CT General Assembly increased early childhood funding by $183 million! ADVOCACY WORKS, but it costs money. Please support the Early Childhood Alliance. thegreatgive.org/organizatio… via @GiveGab
Merrill Gay retweeted
In partnership with @OxfamAmerica @NABTU @SEIU @nwlc, we are calling on Congress to fund affordable, accessible child care and help ensure living wages for providers and all workers.
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Lifting the Revenue Cap would create a dedicated funding stream to support infant-toddler care. In New Britain, there are 11 babies for every licensed infant/toddler care spot. #ChildCareForCT
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@Cabrera4CT @ChrisMurphyCT @SenBlumenthal How many families in CT can truly afford child care? (Spoiler alert: not many because the system is broken. We need to #FixChildCare)
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Another behind the scenes of @ctcercle co-founder Georgia Goldburn with the @CWCSEO and @BPRCCTCAUCUS Watch the live stream at facebook.com/CWCSEO #morningwithoutchildcare #fixchildcare
