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Download full textWhitebook, Marcy – 2001
In order to improve the quality of child care services in the United States, the child care workforce must be better compensated. This paper describes the movement to improve child care compensation over the last 25 years as viewed by one of the leaders in that effort. The paper focuses on three distinct phases of this history: (1) 1970-1985, the…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Child Caregivers
Whitebook, Marcy; Phillips, Deborah – 1999
Reliable child care services are widely viewed as pivotal to the success of welfare reform because most welfare recipients depend on child care in order to seek, gain, and maintain employment. Others of the working poor need it to avoid dependency on public assistance. As a result, current policy decisions and research efforts are largely focused…
Descriptors: Caregiver Training, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Children
