Join Thousands Advocating to Raise Child Care Wages!

From Start Strong PA (https://startstrongpa.org/):

Raising child care wages not only recognizes child care professionals deserve pay that reflects their important work, it will increase child care programs’ ability to recruit and retain qualified staff. This will reduce the staff turnover that negatively impacts children’s development and that has resulted in classroom and program closures currently disrupting working families’ ability to work.

Low wages are driving a state-wide staffing crisis resulting in:https://startstrongpa.org/take-action

• over 32,400 children sitting on waiting lists; and
• nearly 7,000 open child care positions.

More than 30,000 additional children could be served if child care programs were fully staffed!

Take action today at https://startstrongpa.org/take-action and tell our elected officials how important child care is to our children, their families, Pennsylvania business and our economic recovery.

It only takes 2 minutes to send an email to your Senator and Representative urging them to include sustainable funding for a $2/hour wage supplement in child care funding in the state budget.

Don’t delay, as 2022-2023 budget negotiations are nearly done!