{"title":"Elliot Haspel","description":"Elliot Haspel, Child care policy expert, and a senior fellow, Think tank Capita","products":[{"product_id":"crawling-behind-americas-child-care-crisis-and-how-to-fix-it-paperback","title":"Crawling Behind: America's Child Care Crisis and How to Fix It - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I've totally washed away the dream of having one more child.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I had never intended to be a stay-at-home-parent, but the cost of child care turned me into one.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We had to pull our toddler out of his program because we couldn't afford to have two kids in high-quality care.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are not the voices of those down on their luck, but the voices of America's middle class. The lack of affordable, available, high-quality childcare is a boulder on the backs of all but the most affluent. Millions of hard-working families are left gasping for air while the next generation misses out on a strong start.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo date, we've been fighting this five-alarm fire with the policy equivalent of beach toy water buckets. It's time for a bold investment in America's families and America's future. There's only one viable solution: Childcare should be free.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51325608296671,"sku":"9781684334278","price":24.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/T8SDU8HHN59781684334278.webp?v=1788448019"},{"product_id":"raising-a-nation-10-reasons-every-american-has-a-stake-in-child-care-for-all-hardcover","title":"Raising a Nation: 10 Reasons Every American Has a Stake in Child Care for All - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRaising a Nation\u003c\/em\u003e offers a new framework for thinking about a comprehensive, inclusive child care system: one that supports families in all their diversity, whether they want to utilize a licensed child care program, family member, or have a parent as the primary child care provider. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThanks to a history of neglect, child care in America is expensive, scarce, and of questionable quality. Yet too often the response is not a push for governmental action but a derisive, \"Why should I pay for your child?\" At best, leaders make the case for child care on bloodless economic grounds: We need a place to put the kids so parents can work. Elliot Haspel argues that a key step has been missed. A step so fundamental that it has ruined the chances of winning an effective child care system, despite decades of pain that cross geographic and ideological borders. Establishing that good child care belongs among the pantheon of American values. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHaspel makes ten distinct but interlinking cases for why every American--whatever their political affiliation, and whether or not they have young children or any children at all--has a stake in ensuring a strong child care system to facilitate strong families and a strong nation. This groundbreaking book opens up conversations that can finally push child care from being seen as a private responsibility to being viewed as an essential part of the American social fabric.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51327040159967,"sku":"9780197799291","price":51.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/p-zcTqBSSK9780197799291.webp?v=1788469353"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/elliot-haspel.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}