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This report seeks to document key trends in the labor market and how they might change the nature of work over the next 10 to 15 years, with a focus on low-income populations.

Learn about co-regulation approaches to supporting youth in foster care.

This snapshot uses data from 2019 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE), together with the 2012 NSECE, to describe the characteristics of households with young children to describe the characteristics of households with young children and reports on the work schedules of parents during a reference week in 2019 and describes how work schedules differed for households of different income levels; between one-parent and two-parent families; and in households where neither, one, nor both parents worked.

The report highlights examples of state ECE consumer education websites that are easy for parents to navigate; offer information about costs and financial supports to make care more affordable; provide information about how care can support child development; and can help parents locate care that meets their needs (e.g. near home/their work, during non-traditional hours, etc.).

This chartbook draws from data collected in the 2012 and 2019 NSECE Center-based Provider Surveys. In the NSECE, a center-based provider delivers CCEE services to children age five and under, not yet in kindergarten, at a single location.

Explore OPRE's research brief on how Region XI Head Start children's centers responded early in the COVID-19 pandemic to support children and families.

Out of the 10 evaluations (9 PACE evaluations plus the HPOG 1.0 Impact Study), most programs had large impacts on credential receipt and more modest impacts on training duration but only one had earnings impacts.

This brief highlights key findings from the Final Report of the five-year evaluation of the Tribal HPOG 2.0 Program and describes how the Tribal HPOG 2.0 grantees implemented the career pathways framework for their HPOG programs.

Research agenda for examining the impacts of COVID-19 on child care and early education (CCEE), including young children, families, the CCEE workforce, CCEE programs, and the broader CCEE system.

Explore the final report from the five-year evaluation of the Tribal HPOG 2.0 Program to learn more about the grantee programs' structure and context, career pathways approach, and outcomes.