Dresser, L., and J. Knauss. The US Child Care Industry. COWS, 2015.
The purpose of this report is to provide an accessible overview of child care with a special focus on the child care workforce in the United States in 2014. The broad questions that guide this document are:
- What does the industry “look like”? What does this mean for workers in child care?
- How has it changed and not changed over recent decades? And how have the skills and pay of workers changed, or not?
- What are the strongest ways to enhance workers’ skills and wages building around an agenda of quality care and quality jobs for the future in child care?