childcare crisis

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the United States took dramatic action to invest in child care. Now in 2023, the majority of those investments are coming to an end. Today, we talk to childcare providers about what those funds meant—and where the end of the pandemic-era programs leaves an essential but strained system.

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We’re taking a look at some of our favorite moments from the 2021 Fast Company Innovation Festival.  Here’s a conversation about how we can fix the childcare crisis with Wendy Chun-Hoon, director of the Women’s Bureau at the Department of Labor, and Elliot Haspel, author and philanthropic program officer at the Robins Foundation.