Access to Affordable, Quality Childcare is a Priority!
One
of the newsletters I have subscribed to is from the organization National Women’s
Law Center. The causes and concerns of this organization are to advocate for
issues that affect women and their families. I was recently interested in the
initiative of this organization to get the attention of members of congress and
make them aware of the need for quality childcare as that would be one of the
biggest issues that affects working families. When policymakers formulate their
agenda priorities, whose interests are at the forefront of their minds? It is
hard to remember that even though access to good quality child care is
something that you and I spend a lot of time working on and advocating for, not
everyone does - including our policymakers. And unfortunately, not all of us
have strong relationships with the people that vote on critical policies like
child care that affect women, children, and families. There is a phone
conference set for interested persons to listen in for May 17th, 2012.
Follow the link below for more information on the conference
call.
http://action.nwlc.org/site/Survey?ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&SURVEY_ID=14040
http://action.nwlc.org/site/Survey?ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&SURVEY_ID=14040
RSVP - Put Child Care on
the Map (5/17/2012)
Other issues NWLC
address are education, healthcare, poverty and income support, judges and the
courts, social security, taxes and budgets. I do find that this organization
deals with issues of changing demographics and diversity in education and the
workplace.
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Sheila,
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing this great website. I had always thought about advocating for early childhood education through education. Your post today has broadened my view. Thank you also for the information about the conference call on Thursday. I would like to be a part of it. I have Eligibility Meetings all day that day. Let us know what you find out!