Child Care Updates
Add Child Care to Your Benefits Package
Adding child care benefits can increase employee retention and engagement. Read the full report here.
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Child Care Resource and Recovery Monthly Newsletter
Child Care Resource and Recovery Monthly Newsletter is out with a lot of updates about state programs, rating systems, and opportunities for teens to start a new career. Please read more online here.
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Would a $4/hour pay increase for child care workers reduce attrition rates in the industry? Yes, according to one experiment in Iowa City
Would a $4/hour pay increase for child care workers reduce attrition rates in the industry? Yes, according to one experiment in Iowa City.
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Join us for Upcoming Webinars! New Child Care Grant Opportunity Announced.
Join Iowa Grants to learn how to write the most appealing grant application for their new Child Care Grants!
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One Million Women are Missing from the Workforce
One million women are missing from the workforce - 58% say child care affects their ability to work.
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Senate Hearing Child Care and Preschool: Cutting Costs for Working Families
In survey data published by the National Council of Nonprofits, nonprofits identified the lack of adequate child care as a key factor contributing to the nonprofit workforce shortages crisis. The nonprofit community letter, discussed above, states, “As employers and, in many cases, child care providers, charitable nonprofits are deeply concerned that the lack of child care and equitable wages are impediments to all; as one expert said on a recent Federal Reserve webinar, ‘There is no recovery of the economy
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Iowa Introduces New Quality Rating and Improvement System for Child Care Providers
A new quality rating system for Iowa’s child care providers, Iowa Quality for Kids (IQ4K), rolled out statewide on April 1, 2022.
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Child Care Shared Services
Child Care Shared Service Update and April's monthly project update.
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Iowa Women's Foundation - Businesses' and Childcare Toolkit
Child Care Is a Community Issue Iowa is in the middle of a child care crisis affecting not only our parents, but our workforce, our businesses, and our communities:
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