Child care workers across the country struggle to make ends meet. Parents need quality, affordable child care.
That's why people who care for children are coming together with parents to fight for fair pay and child care for all. We're standing together to demand more for everyone who works hard but doesn’t make enough to get by.
Watch the video to hear why we're in the Fight for $15.
I think it's wrong that people who care for and teach kids all day as their job aren't paid enough to provide for their families. Child care workers deserve at least $15 per hour so they can care for and educate the children in our communities.
Ingrid Henlon, a head teacher at Mount Olive Child Development Program in Hartford, Connecticut, spoke at the press conference announcing the Child Care for Working Families Act, which represents a gigantic step on that path towards the child care system we children, families, and workers deserve. This bill will raise standards, cap parents’ child expenses…
Read more →Rachel Jesequel, a mother from Oregon, understands our broken child care system and the effect it has on both workers and families. After working in retail and office jobs in the past, she now stays at home while her husband works because the cost of finding care for her two young children is astronomical.
Read more →
In an op-ed for Women’s eNews, Tolanda Barnette, a child care worker and Fight for $15 activist, explained how President Trump’s proposed plan isn’t a serious or comprehensive effort to improve our child care system.
Read more →