ERIC Number: ED629120
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Aug-25
Pages: 4
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Help Wanted! Child Care Staffing Crisis Means Still No Room for Babies
Dellanno, Diane; Rice, Cynthia
Advocates for Children of New Jersey
As of July 2022, child care employment in the United States was still 8.4% below what it was in February 2020 with nearly 90,000 child care professionals leaving the workforce for higher-paying and less stressful jobs. Although New Jersey's child care employment has been rising, the numbers have not reached pre-pandemic levels. This ongoing child care workforce crisis has left programs understaffed, preventing them from operating at full capacity, thereby limiting child care options for working families, especially those with infants and toddlers. Advocates for Children of New Jersey (ACNJ) wanted to better understand the magnitude of this problem that is making it so difficult for working parents to find care for their youngest children. Through the distribution of a survey to all child care centers licensed to serve infants and toddlers in New Jersey, ACNJ was able to elicit from the responses why there is "Still No Room for Babies." This report, highlighting those findings, makes it clear that solving the child care crisis warrants new policies to address workforce compensation.
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Labor Market, Supply and Demand, Infants, Toddlers, Child Care Centers, Compensation (Remuneration), Costs
Advocates for Children of New Jersey. 35 Halsey Street 2nd Floor, Newark, NJ 07102. Tel: 973-643-3876; Fax: 973-643-9153; e-mail: advocates@acnj.org; Web site: http://www.acnj.org
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Advocates for Children of New Jersey
Identifiers - Location: New Jersey
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