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Through The Noise
September 16, 2020
TTN #560 Early Childcare Issues: Why & How to Fix Them – With Elliot Haspel
Elliot Haspel // Author // Crawling Behind
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Elliot Haspel
Elliot Haspel is an early childhood policy expert and the author of Crawling Behind: America’s Childcare Crisis and How to Fix It. He lives in Richmond, VA with his wife and two young daughters.
Crawling Behind asks a simple question: If child care is, like public education, critical both to the economy and children’s development, why isn’t it free?