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Two Articles Highlight LIIF's Involvement with Investing in America Child Care Partnership

Two recent articles highlight LIIF’s involvement in the Investing in America Child Care Partnership, which aims to increase child care supply and improve the quality of care by beginning with pilots in Arizona, Ohio, Michigan and New Hampshire. LIIF is excited to play a leadership role in New Hampshire thanks to support from the Couch Family Foundation and the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. It’s our initial foray into this state, with new partners, as we continue to address issues that cross states lines (e.g., access to child care as a consideration in economic development).

The Partnership builds on the Investing in America agenda, which has allowed for unprecedented investments in infrastructure, clean energy, semiconductors and biotechnology through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and the CHIPS and Science for America Act (CHIPS). An important aspect of this agenda has been the mobilization of private-sector investments to bring jobs to parts of the country that are often left behind. As a result, many new employees will need help in locating and paying for high-quality child care settings where children can thrive.

The article explains the pivotal role CDFI partners play in this initiative:
“Manufacturers use language like ‘employee attraction, employee retention, employee satisfaction.’ We use language like ‘transformational community development, aligning programmatic and facilities quality.’ But we’re talking about the same thing. We’re the translators.”

Read the Early Learning Nation article.

Read The 74 article.

The Partnership builds on the Investing in America agenda, which has allowed for unprecedented investments in infrastructure, clean energy, semiconductors and biotechnology through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and the CHIPS and Science for America Act (CHIPS).

Early Care and Education