Early Childhood: A Newsletter from The Hechinger Report
“In the last half of 2025, Gertrudis Espinal watched as, one by one, children left the child care program she runs out of her home in the Bronx. The city had run out of voucher money that her families needed to pay for care, and by February, she only had seven children enrolled – half […]
Early Learning Nation: Colorado Pilot Gives Home Child Care Providers Cash Payments with No ‘Strings Attached
“She puts in long hours, starting at 5 in the morning and working until 3 every day. One parent works on a farm an hour away, another works an early shift at a tamale factory and another works an early shift at a meat processor. Lerrga makes so little, however, that she has to work […]
EdSurge: What Happens When You Give Child Care Providers Money — With No Strings Attached?
“Hernandez, a 47-year-old in Greeley, Colorado, a mid-sized city about 60 miles north of Denver, was preparing to leave the child care sector when something unbelievable happened. She learned about an opportunity to begin receiving predictable, unconditional direct cash payments, for a total of $500 per month, through a pilot program aimed at stabilizing the […]
The Colorado Sun: Programs offering universal basic income — or direct cash with no strings attached — are increasing across ColoradoThe Colorado Sun
Dozens of Colorado nonprofits are funding direct cash programs they say have led to economic stability for individuals and families.
YES! Magazine: Child Care: Invaluable and Undervalued
Direct payments to home-based child care providers can sustain them and the essential work they do to care for the children of working Americans.
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