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New Ways to Organize Early Care and Education in Terms of Administration, Finance...

Moving Direct Support to a Long-Term Part of the Finance Infrastructure

  • For discussion on direct and portable financing:
    • It's Not Just About More Money….Early Care and Education Finance Reform (This link is currently unavailable)
    • Visioning a New Child Care Financing Structure (This link is currently unavailable)
  • For information on the topics listed below, see the 2001 edition of Financing Child Care in the United States:
    • North Carolina: W.A.G.E.$. (pages 66-67) and T.E.A.C.H. (pages 69-70)
    • Washington: Wage Ladder (pages 68-69)
    • Rhode Island: Health Insurance (page 37)
    • New York State: Enrichment Grants (pages 118-119)
    • Model Centers Initiative (page 136)
    • Child care endowment funds (Dekko Foundation, page 127)
    • Child care facilities funds (pages 72-73, 156, and 158-160)
  • For a summary of current child care compensation initiatives, see NAEYC Children's Champions
  • Read Investing in Our Future: A Guide to Child Care Financing (especially the introduction and Chapter 2). This publication may be purchased from the National Conference of State Legislatures.
  • For a discussion of how direct support works in the military child care system, see Examining the Cost of Military Child Care. Gail Zellman, Susan M. Gates, MR-1415-OSD. 2002.

Relative Roles of Federal, State and Local Investment in Community-Designed Early Care and Education Systems

Relative Power of Different Revenue Generation Methods

Investment in Early Care and Education as Economic Development

Moving from a Flawed Subsidy System for the Poor to Financial Aid for All Families that Need It

Using Tax Credits to Finance Early Care and Education

  • Financing Child Care in the United States
    Mitchell, Stoney, and Dichter. 2001 Edition
    Get more information from this resource on the following topics:
    • Introduction to Generating Public Revenue (pages 10-14)
    • Tax credits deductions and exemptions (pages 29-43)
  • National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) publications and website
    These are excellent sources of information on tax-based approaches to funding early care and education and include the following:
    • A Catalog of Tax-based Approaches for Financing Child Care. National Women’s Law Center (November 2001). Washington DC: Author. This is a thorough discussion of the full range of tax-based approaches with detailed examples of each type. This resource is available on the Web.
    • Making Child Care Less Taxing: Improving State Child and Dependent Care Tax Provisions. Donahue, Elisabeth Hirschhorn and Nancy Duff Campbell (April 2002). Washington, DC: National Women’s Law Center. This provides complete information about each state’s tax provision, graded and ranked, along with design principles for best practice.
    • Credit Where Credit is Due. National Women’s Law Center (2002) Washington, DC: Author. This is a helpful booklet, aimed at families, that explains how to use four federal tax provisions: child and dependent care tax credit, earned income credit, child tax credit and dependent care assistance plans.
    • National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC) has placed a compendium on their website of resources related to tax credits to support early childhood education. To access these resources, go to the website.

Public/Consumer/Voter Engagement Related to Early Care and Education Finance

Incorporating Paid Family Leave into the Finance System

  • Financing Child Care in the United States
    Mitchell, Stoney, and Dichter. 2001 Edition
    Get more information from this resource on TDI in New Jersey (pages 142-143)
  • National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC)
    The NCCIC website has information on the AHIC programs in MN, MO, MT and UT.
  • Economic Security Tool Kit #3. Family leave Insurance.
    Economic Opportunity Institute (2001). Seattle WA: Author. This publication describes the proposal for family leave insurance in Washington State and includes fact sheets and state polling data.
  • The Widening Gap
    Heymann, Jody (2000). New York: Basic Books.
  • Beyond the FMLA: Employers and Paid Family and Medical Leave
    Lake, Snell, Perry and Associates (December 2002). Washington, DC: National Partnership for Women and Families. This is a summary report on the focus groups with employers.
  • Family Leave Benefits: A Menu of Policy Options for State and Local Leaders
    National Partnership for Women and Families (September 2001). Washington, DC: Author. This publication from the Campaign for Family Leave Benefits is an excellent summary of the design issues, policy options and funding mechanisms for paid leave.

Pros and Cons of Linking Early Care and Education Finance to Education