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Information About Child Care Issues
Why Does Child Care Matter In Minnesota?
Child care providers represent one of our state’s largest workforces at 36,500 workers strong*, enable 75 percent of Minnesota families to get to work each day by caring for their children**, and play a central role in preparing our future workforce for success.
On this page:
- Annual Reports
- Reports & Studies
- Data
- Family, Friends & Neighbor Providers Reports
- Media Stories: Economic Impact of Child Care
- Media Stories: Trends & Quality in Care
Network Annual Reports (PDFs)
Reports & Studies
- Child care use in Minnesota (Wilder Research Center)
- Child Care Workforce in Minnesota (Wilder Research Center)
- Covering the Map: Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies Providing Vital Services to Parents Throughout the United States (NACCRRA)
- Family, friend and neighbor care supply and demand (Wilder Research Center)
- Grandparents: A Critical Child Care Safety Net (NACCRRA)
- A New Day for Learning (PDF, Time, Learning, and Afterschool Task Force)
- Parents and the High Price of Child Care: 2008 Update (NACCRRA)
- Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (NICHD)
Data
Family, Friends and Neighbor Providers Reports (PDFs)
- Family, Friend and Neighbor Caregivers: Results of the 2004 Minnesota Statewide Household Child Care Survey
- Family, Friends and Neighbors Caring for Children Through the Minnesota Child Care Assistance Program: A Survey of Caregivers and Parents
- Observations of Family, Friend and Neighbor Care in Minnesota (briefing paper)
- Observations of Family, Friend and Neighbor Care in Minnesota (full report)
- Families, Friends and Neighbor Child Care Providers in Recent Immigrant and Refugee Communities
- Sparking Connections Report, Phase II
- Sparking Connections Report 2006
Minnesota Sparking Connections is part of a national Families and Work Institute initiative that is identifying and demonstrating community-based strategies for helping family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) caregivers meet the needs of working parents, their children, and their employers.
Media Stories
Economic Impact of Child Care
» Million-Dollar Babies (2008-05-02)
» Nonprofit day-care centers eye Supreme Court ruling (2008-01-07)
» Invest in Children, Not Ballparks (2007-12-10)
» Editorial: Turning child care into preschool (2007-12-10)
» Fed economic analyst urges investment in kids (2007-01-22)
» Investing in the kids (2006-11-06)
» Daycare dilemma (2006-11-06)
» New national report finds Minnesota families have less access to affordable child care; Itasca initiative is a state model for change (2006-10-11)
» Viewpoint: Let's get started on the road to quality pre-K education (2006-09-25)
» Investing In Human Futures (2006-09-25)
» Editorial: Try scholarships for early childhood ed (2006-07-28)
» Pawlenty encourages ad signers: Send a check (2006-07-28)
» Guv's child care veto: He'd rather do nothing (2006-07-28)
» Turning point for early learning in MN (2006-06-29)
» Universal preschool, universal benefits (2006-04-10)
» Editorial: High Child Care Costs Indicate Quality (2006-02-21)
» New Report: Breaking the Piggy Bank (2006-02-09)
» State must make early childhood investments a priority (2006-02-09)
» Cost Effectiveness of Early Intervention (2006-02-01)
» New Rules Strain Day Care Providers (2006-01-25)
» Work force 'dropout' trend stirs concern (2006-01-25)
» In Their Own Voices: Parents and Providers Struggling with Child Care Cuts (2005-09-20)
Trends & Quality in Care
» Consensus About Child Care: Quality Counts (2008-09-24)
» Nonprofit groups flustered over court ruling (2008-02-01)
» Early education means a head start in life (2007-09-12)
» Editorial: Study puts preschool doubts to rest (2007-08-17)
» Editorial: Age 3 to Grade 3 is a smart concept (2007-08-14)
» Study shows preschool pays for itself (2007-08-14)
» Child-care choices are critical (2007-04-23)
» The Needless Fear of Day Care (2007-04-05)
» Study Links Day Care to Behavior Problems Later (2007-03-27)
» Study: Good Child Care Pays Dividends (2007-03-27)
» Editorial: Preschool must be higher state priority (2007-02-21)
» A push for early learning (2007-02-07)
» Sign Language in MN Child Care Settings (2006-10-20)
» Notable Absence: High Teacher Turnover Can Take Emotional Toll on Preschoolers (2006-09-25)
» Education vital to U.S. fortunes, senator advises (2006-09-25)
» Editorial: Teach them Early (2006-09-25)
» 2007 Minnesota Work-Life Champions™ Award Applications Now Available (2006-09-21)
» Summer programs keep kids active (2006-07-28)
» Childcare Summer Blues (2006-06-06)
» MomsRising.org Focuses on Support for Family-Friendly Policies (2006-05-25)
» National Poll Reveals Parents Most Concerned About Quality of Child Care (2006-05-11)
» Editorial: Restore support for pre-K classes (2006-04-10)
» Voters Say: Kids Can't Wait to Learn (2006-02-27)
» The Need to Invest in Young Children (2006-01-25)
» Keeping baby close to work (2006-01-25)
» Brown County chosen for early childhood education program (2006-01-25)
» Proposed Quality Rating System (QRS) (2006-01-12)
» Sparking Connections: Supporting FFN Caregivers (2006-01-05)
» Pioneer Press Editorial: Sparring Partners on the Same Side (2005-12-27)
» Wilder Research: Child Care Use in Minnesota (2005-12-05)
*Wilder Research, “Child Care Workforce in Minnesota”, 2006 Statewide Study of Demographics, Training and Professional Development. Richard Chase.
**Wilder Research, “Child Care Workforce in Minnesota”, 2006 Statewide Household Child Care Survey. Richard Chase.
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