Is anyone coming to save us?
No one is coming to save us — we need to save ourselves. Presented by Neighborhood Villages. If you’re paying attention to the news these days, you’ve seen that childcare is front and center! Congressional leaders are nearing a Halloween deadline to pass two separate bills tied to President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda.
Why does it feel like no one is coming to save us?
It can feel like no one is coming to save us. That’s because there isn’t. There is no superhero waiting in the wings to swoop in and solve all our problems. Instead, the way forward is both much harder and much simpler: We need to save ourselves by running for and winning local office.
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ABOUT THE SHOW
Host Gloria Riviera, “Call it Like it Is” Special Correspondent Kristen Bell, parents, and providers zoom in on America’s childcare crisis and the people crushed by it. Access to high-quality childcare and early education determines so much of a kid’s future…and their family’s sanity.
Neighborhood Villages
A systems-change non-profit working to realize a future in which all families have access to affordable, high-quality early education and car. Click the above link to learn more.
Spring Point Partners
A social impact venture that invites deep collaboration on exciting approaches to change. Click the above link to learn more.
Imaginable Futures
Imaginable Futures is a global philanthropic investment firm driven by impact and the belief that learning is key to well-being and equitable, healthy systems.
Care For All Children
CareForAllChildren (CFAC) is a national bipartisan campaign run by the David and Laura Merage Foundation that advocates for affordable, accessible, and high-quality childcare for all children. They are igniting a cultural shift in which parent’s voices are finally heard and early care and education is embraced and funded as a public good.
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Gloria chats with Elizabeth Warren about how we transform our country’s broken childcare system into one that’s accessible for all. “This is the moment to raise your voice.
Episode 4: How We Save Ourselves
Gloria chats with Elizabeth Warren about how we transform our country’s broken childcare system into one that’s accessible for all. “This is the moment to raise your voice.
Episode 2: Birth of a Broken System
Gloria investigates where everything went wrong for childcare in America, and Kristen Bell joins to give Nixon a piece of her mind.
Episode 2. Birth of a Broken System
Going down memory lane, the second episode of NOICTSU provides historical context about early childhood care and education in the U.S. Kristen Bell commented on Richard Nixon’s administration’s veto of Walter Mondale’s comprehensive Child Development Act of 1971.
Episode 4. How We Save Ourselves
The final episode systematically lays out concrete and strategic steps to advocate for public investment in a high-quality, affordable, equitable U.S. childcare system.
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