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    Your Child's Academic Success May Start With Their Screen Time as Infants, Study Says

    Letting infants watch tablets and TV may be impairing their academic achievement and emotional well-being later on, according to a new study.

     

    Researchers found that increased use of screen time during infancy was associated with poorer executive functioning once the child was 9 years old, according to the study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.

     

    Click here to read the full story from CNN.

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    Child Care in America Continues to be 'One of the Biggest Challenges' for Working Women

    The U.S. is facing an ongoing “crisis of care” — a child care crisis — exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic and ensuing economic fallout.

     

    Women were among those hardest hit by job losses as a result of COVID, with over 5.4 million net jobs lost between February 2020 and January 2022. At the same time, the cost of child care has been steadily rising in part due to inflation.

     

    Click here to read the full story from Yahoo Finance.

    State of North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper official proclamation

    Governor Proclaims Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day

    North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper has issued a proclamation officially recognizing May 6, 2022, as Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day!

     

    Click here to read the full proclamation.

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    Child Care Workers are Vanishing — And It's Hurting the Entire Economy

    Since losing one-third of its workforce at the outset of the pandemic, the child care industry has seen a jobs recovery that's been slow and incomplete. And now it's starting to backslide.

     

    After shedding 4,500 jobs from September through November, preliminary estimates from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics show that the child day care services industry lost another 3,700 jobs in December.

     

    Click here to read the full story from CNN Business.

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    Survey: NC Child Care Centers Struggling to Hire and Retain Staff

    North Carolina child care providers are finding it difficult to hire and retain qualified staff as the state continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new survey. As a result, nearly one-third (32%) of child care providers have abruptly closed classrooms with little notice to parents. Despite providers offering increased salaries and benefits to staff, more than 80 percent of child care centers surveyed report that it is more difficult to hire staff now than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic.

     

    Click here to read the full report.

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    Child Care, a Critical Service for Families, Remains Inaccessible for Many

    For many families, child care is a necessity. In 2019, there were 73 million children in the U.S., which is about 22% of the U.S. population. But child care can be prohibitively expensive. The average cost is about $10,000 a year per child, according to the Treasury Department. This often forces parents to make a decision: pay for child care or quit their job.

     

    Click here to listen to a Charlotte Talks conversation with CCRI President & CEO Janet Singerman and other experts about the child care crisis.

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    With child care unaffordable and hard to find, many parents struggle to stay employed

    Parents — low-wage earners in particular — are struggling to secure affordable child care as the industry grapples with financials that don't add up for child care operators, families, and workers.

     

    But cost isn't the only factor making care hard to find. Many child care facilities have had to slash their capacity because of understaffing and because of the need to maintain social distancing as young children remain unvaccinated, leaving fewer spots open for families looking for child care.

     

    Click here to read the full story from CBS News.

  • More News

     

    Help for NC Child Care Programs (Axios Charlotte)

     

    NC Child Care Programs Struggle to Hang On (Axios Charlotte)

     

    NC Child Care Industry Still Reeling from COVID Setbacks (WFAE)

     

    Many child care providers don't earn a living wage — and that was true even before the pandemic (CNBC)

     

    COVID-19 risk among child care providers (Child Care Aware of America)

     

    Does quality early childhood education lead to more successful lives? (National Academy of Sciences)

     

    The pandemic upended child care. It could be devastating for women. (Washington Post)

     

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