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DOWNINGTOWN — The Chester County Economic Development Council (CCEDC) is inviting employers to a free workshop and breakfast on options for addressing employee childcare. Childcare staffing shortages and extensive waitlists continue to affect families and employers, resulting in employee absences, scheduling conflicts and frustration. The panel discussion and roundtable called “Childcare: The Workforce Behind the Workforce” will be […]

We need our community and state leaders to take bold action to address the child care crisis for affordable, accessible, and high-quality care that will support a healthy, equitable, and prosperous future for New Hampshire.

New Hampshire has consistently been a great state to open a business and to raise a family, but as any parent of young children knows, the difficulty of accessing affordable and reliable childcare is threatening the precarious balance of industry and...

A lack of affordable child care for working parents is a brake on Maine employers' ability to hire.

The state of child care in New Hampshire has always been a tenuous one. In many areas there just aren’t enough open spots for families that are looking for care.A 2018 Center for American Progress analysis found that more than half of Americans live...