child care subsidies

Samuel Owusu helps Michigan strengthen early childhood data systems so leaders can see if public investments are reaching the children and families they are designed to serve.

A teacher has a question, notes for families await delivery to classrooms, and a little girl arriving at Blackbird Child Care Center in Harbor Springs needs her rain boots swapped for shoes. Sadie Riley-Flemming responds to it all with a smile.

A new website answers child care providers' frequently asked questions about Michigan's Child  Development and Care Subsidy—an underused resource that can help families pay for child care.  The University of Michigan's Poverty Solutions developed...

Federal lawmakers continue to seek out University of Michigan faculty members to lend their expertise and knowledge to help inform federal policy. In the last year, 13 U-M faculty members and researchers testified at 14 congressional hearings spa...

Betsy Stevenson weighed in on labor market recovery, the job market, the tampon tax, and more.  On labor market recovery While most of the United States seems to be recovering from the worst parts of the pandemic, the job crisis it caused is s...

Within the Congressional reconciliation bill, Democrats are hoping to pass a child care plan that would cap costs of child care, implement a national, free pre-school program, and boost child care workers' wages.  "We've documented (these problem...

Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, both professors of public policy and economics, were among the 127 economists demanding Democrats in Congress to invest in quality childcare. "Childcare is an economic problem," Stevenson said. "It is part of ...

A research article by Sandra K. Danziger, Sheldon Danziger, Kristin S. Seefeldt, and Luke Shaefer, "Increasing work opportunities and reducing poverty two decades after Welfare Reform," was published in the November 2015 edition of the Journal of Pol...