Demands. You seem to be a troll, so I’ll stop answering you and others like ya for now. Have a good one.

People don’t get childcare to not work :)

I feel you! We’ll totally see you in March or beyond, and welcome aboard!

Well, I’m actually anti-universal childcare now that I’ve read this! You totally changed my mind. Thank you for enlightening me, drxdrg08 :)

I like to think it’s a good stepping stone ✊🏼

Feel free to join r/universalchildcare to stay tuned or join the call on Wednesday. I think you’re right in that there is room for improvement all around….

I’ll DM you!

Ohhh, thank you!

While I don’t, we have a working group working on policy and research. I know something like this was included in Build Back Better and then removed, so there has been work done on it before.

That has been mentioned by other parents! Someone just mentioned something similar— I’ll be sure to report back to the group. Our exact demands have not been defined yet, we’re building our base right now so that we represent more people than just a small group. …wanna join? 😉

We have heard this before! We haven’t totally defined our demands at this early stage, but this has been mentioned by others and I really appreciate feedback like this. I’ll take it back to the working group.

I want to make sure these questions are in good faith, and respond to the ones that are. Are you interested in organizing with others for, yes, affordable, accessible, and quality care? If so, you have the information you need from my original post and other answers.

I’m a full time working parent with limited time. I’m organizing in some of my spare time with hundreds of other people. I think childcare should be free to all. We pay taxes, significant taxes, and I’d like to see those taxes work for us.

Cheers! Hope to see you in an organizing call. It takes vision and optimism to work towards something new— come aboard if that’s you.

No, the issues are it needs to be affordable, accessible, and quality. That is what we want to organize to address. PA’s currently isn’t affordable or very accessible and there’s a wide spectrum of quality— your guess as to who can afford quality centers.

I want to be clear: we do not have an entire campaign and specific demands planned out yet. If you would like to be a part of that effort, Wednesday’s meeting would be a great place to start!

Thank you for this question— I’d agree with what people are writing below about the income limits being out of touch, and argue that PA childcare is not heavily subsidized. I meet a lot of people barely scraping by who do not qualify. I’m one of those families (two adults in FT jobs, constant employment since a teen, no major medical emergencies… and childcare is unaffordable. We aren’t living the highlife).

There’s also the question of room at quality centers. The waiting lists are incredibly long in my area. Additionally, high staff turnover is detrimental to young children’s development and higher wages and better conditions could prevent the turnover, but it’s not going to happen without a concerted effort to improve and budgets being strategically used.

I’m not going to say there aren’t a lot of things to work out, but I will say other countries (and even at the state level!) do this and it’s worth the investment on many levels (fiscal, personal).

Thanks for your q!

Thank you for your opinion, obsolete man :)