Iowa is in the middle of a child care crisis. It’s tough on families, businesses and communities.
Members of the Iowa Women’s Foundation recently visited the State Capitol to share with legislators their ideas for expanding access to child care.
Iowa’s child care challenges include:
· Making care accessible to ALL Iowans, including those in rural areas.
· Finding nontraditional options for parents who work outside of the 9-to-5 schedule or attend school.
· Keeping child care affordable, while ensuring that providers earn a fair and livable wage.
Women’s Foundation members have been touring Iowa communities, talking to child care providers, nonprofits, business leaders and working parents about solutions to help Iowa families prosper.
The Foundation recommends the Legislature increase support for early childhood initiatives and expand eligibility for child care tax credits. I am sponsoring a bill this session (SF 2110) to increase income eligibility for child care assistance over the next five years.
Other potential solutions include:
· Building and expanding child care centers.
· Supporting child care entrepreneurs.
· Encouraging businesses to add child care benefits.
· Working with community colleges to prepare the next generation of child care providers.
· Enhancing before-and after-school programs.
· Creating viable child care options for second- and third-shift workers.
As a grantmaking organization, the Iowa Women’s Foundation established a Child Care Solutions Fund to invest in initiatives that increase women’s economic security—and provide the workers that local employers need—through access to quality, affordable child care.
Stop reproducing. Half or better of you are terrible parents anyhow. You don’t need to have kids. They are annoying to those of us smart enough to understand that having kids is not a good way to enjoy your life or your money. If you can’t afford to take care of a dog people tell you to get rid of it. If you can’t afford to have your kid babysat maybe you can’t afford it and should rehome it to some other idiot?
Well, your momma must be really proud of you. I bet she wishes whoever your daddy was that he either pulled out or couldn’t get it up that night.
but he didn’t and had another….you
You do NOT want more government involved in this. Their regulations are most of the reason cost is so high now.
Don’t have children if you can’t afford to raise them
That doesn’t solve the problem we have now.
Caring for someone else’s children isn’t my problem or concern.
Like Kraig said; “Don’t have children if you can’t afford to raise them.”
So, what do you think we should do about this problem? Ignore it? Let them suffer?
Need to start by stopping it from happening…then take care of those already here
How are we going to stop it from happening? It still doesn’t answer the question about those already here.
Education, sterilization
Well if you weren’t stupid you would have aborted before your body and vag where irrevocably ruined. Woman who have kids are so brutally unattractive in many many ways!
So are extremely stupid men, like you.
Yes, Mandy, we know the only way for ANYTHING to be fixed is by divine, government intervention. And of course, yours too.
I applaud you for never letting a “crisis” go to waste.