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Report: NJ women back to work, not back to normal
A study from the Rutgers Center for Women and Work analyzing how the pandemic affected child care access, employment and earnings found that while participation rates are mostly back to where they had been, more women are cutting back on hours or moving to part-time work. According to Executive Director Debra Lancaster, “This is the part of the ‘She-cession’ that no one is talking about."
NJ child care industry seeks help for post-pandemic recovery
While federal and state subsidies have helped families cover costs in the past year, those funds amounted to a band-aid. As for caregivers, they're struggling to retain employees.
Groups call for new NJ child tax credit
The goal of the state-run $100 million proposal is to help families move out of poverty, and get many of them into the workforce.
New law to ramp up NJ’s child tax credit program for 2021
The legislation is a bid to boost the state's workforce. According to a Dec. 2 statement from the Assembly Democrats, more than 88,000 additional families could benefit from the expanded tax subsidy program.
Poll: As COVID wanes, NJ parents struggle to bring kids back to daycare
A report by Fairleigh Dickinson University and the nonprofit Nicholson Foundation found that 45% of respondents were dependent on family for child care, while 35% had none at all.
