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Elliot Haspel

Elliot Haspel is a senior fellow at the think tank Capita and the author of "Crawling Behind: America’s Childcare Crisis and How to Fix It." Haspel also writes a Substack, The Family Frontier.

Wisconsin Is Cutting State Funding for Child Care. Providers Are Taking a Stand

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The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit Is Long Overdue for Reform

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‘Chainsaw Approach’ to Budget Cuts Leaves Military Families as Collateral Damage

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Families and Providers Deserve More Notice When Child Care Programs Close

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A Rapid Succession of Child Care Closures Calls for Close Scrutiny

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Flipping the Script on Universal Child Care

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Federal Funding Upheaval Is Harmful for Children, Parents and Educators

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What to Expect on Child Care from Trump’s Second Presidency

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KinderCare Went Public. What Does This Mean for the American Child Care System?

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Has the 2024 Election Cycle Set the Stage for a National Consensus on Child Care?

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Has the 2024 Election Cycle Set the Stage for a National Consensus on Child Care?

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America Doesn’t Know How to Talk About Child Care

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America Doesn’t Know How to Talk About Child Care

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Child Care Down on the Farm

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Care is No Ordinary Good

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Summertime, Summertime (Child Care) Sadness

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‘When You Care’ Illuminates the Philosophy of Caregiving

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‘The End User Is a Dollar Sign, It’s Not a Child’

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Avoiding the Implementation ‘Valley of Death’

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‘Lose Your Job, Lose Your Child Care’

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The Bay State is Becoming an Early Learning Beacon

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The Child Care Stakes for 2024’s Election Just Went Up

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5 Early Learning Trends for 2024

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New Book on Preschool Segregation Raises Under-Examined Questions

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Offering Child Care Educators Free Child Care: A Stopgap Measure with Legs

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In a Year of Unions Flexing Power, Child Care is a Question Mark

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Kids Are Losing Health Care Due to Red Tape. Why Don’t School Leaders Speak Up?

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Whither Family, Friends & Neighbor Care?

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Child Care is Now Free for Some Families — Which Raises Some Questions!

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The Minimum Viable Child Care Fallacy

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Bring on School-Aged Care

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When the Waters Rise on Child Care Programs

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Where Have All the Child Care Lobbyists Gone?

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Voter Support for Child Care Is Sky-High Yet Butter-Soft

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In Plain Dollars and Cents, a Child Care Policy Without Major Compensation Increases Is No Child Care Policy

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Five Early Learning Trends for 2023

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‘Screaming on the Inside’: How Modern Motherhood Explains the Child Care Crisis

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Child Care or Early Childhood Education?

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Employer-Sponsored Child Care is a Wrong Turn

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Child Care Lessons from Ireland

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How Congress Can Still Save Child Care

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School Readiness and the Tyranny of Merit, Part 1

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School Readiness and the Tyranny of Merit, Part 2

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The Many Cases for Child Care

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‘Those Children Probably Aren’t Going to be Eating’: Family Child Care Providers Prepare for Food Program Cliff

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Congress Takes Another Run at a Child Care Solution

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The Child Care Sector Starts to Flex Its Muscles

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The Case Against For-Profit Child Care Chains

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Raising Child Care Ratios is a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Idea

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States, Time to Step Up on Child Care

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Companies, Stop Building On-Site Child Care Centers and Start Paying Your Taxes

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Beyond the Brain Science: Early Childhood Luminary Jack Shonkoff Calls For “ECD 2.0”

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New Year’s Resolutions for the Early Learning Community

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Build Back Better Helps, Not Hurts, Faith-Based Child Care

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Principles for Implementing the Build Back Better Bill

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Paternity Leave Is Good For Early Learning, Too

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The Raising Child Care Fund: Centering the Most Impacted Voices

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O Canada(’s Child Care Progress)

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Seizing the Reconciliation Opportunity

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We Have School Districts — Why Not Early Childhood Districts?

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New Report: Young Children Took a Blow From COVID. They Need Stable Caregivers to Recover.

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State Roundup: The Summer of Child Care Innovations

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‘You Can’t Compare Apples and Pears’: Setting the Record Straight on Quebec’s Child Care System

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The Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act: The Boldest Plan On Offer Is Quietly Received

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The Child Care For Working Families Act: Transition Fuel for Universal Child Care

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Nearly Half of Child Care Teachers Leave Every Year — Why Aren’t We Talking About This?

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‘Through The Night:’ An Intimate Portrait of Family Child Care Reveals Deeper Truths About Caregiving

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Here Come The Tired Arguments Against Universal Child Care — Reject Them

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The Era of Child Care Incrementalism is Over

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Haspel & Thornton: Every State & District Needs to Create a Learning Recovery Task Force — Now. Here Are Some Reasons Why

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The Other Child Care Crisis: No Staff

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An Electoral “Children’s Wave”

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‘Like a Dream Become Reality’: Multnomah’s Preschool For All Effort Showcases Parent Power

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A Universal Preschool Campaign in Oregon Galvanizes Broad Support and Rewrites All the Rules

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Haspel: Yes, School Enrollment Is Down, but Students Will Be Back. To Minimize Educational Hurt, Hold School Budgets Harmless

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Let’s Talk About the Encouraging COVID Experience of U.S. Child Care Programs

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We’re Asking the Wrong Questions About COVID Cases in Child Care

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Child Cares Look Safe — It’s Time To Act Like It

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Three Lessons the U.S. Can Learn From International COVID-19 Child Care Responses

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Early Childhood Policy Meets Early Childhood Science: On The Future of Early Learning

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Early Childhood Policy Meets Early Childhood Science: On Formal vs. Informal Learning Settings

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Early Childhood Policy Meets Early Childhood Science: On ‘Universal’ Early Learning

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Early Childhood Policy Meets Early Childhood Science: On School Readiness

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Elliot Haspel: Michael Petrilli Misreads How Poverty Affects Learning

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Haspel: The Right Conversation, But Wrong Conclusion

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