Hailey Gibbs, PhD
@haileygibbs.bsky.social
Associate Director, Early Childhood Policy @americanprogress.bsky.social here for the people | ward 6 | my opinions & vibes
Progress in care is happening in several states, but federal cuts are putting that progress at risk. A new report card from @tcfdotorg.bsky.social & @caringacross.org grades all 50 states on care affordability and access See how your state scored in the report. #CareMatters go.tcf.org/CareReport26
Care Matters: A 2026 State Report Card on Care Affordability and Access
Download the Care Matters: A 2026 State Report Card on Care Affordability and Access PDF Care and caregiving are foundational to how society
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“The public deserves to know why the Trump administration is restricting access to critical child care and family assistance funds that hundreds of thousands of families rely on,” Linda Morris, senior staff attorney at the ACLU Women’s Rights Project, said in a statement. thehill.com/regulation/c...
Rights groups sue Trump administration over proposed childcare funding cuts
Civil rights groups sued the Trump administration on Monday, after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for records rel…
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Last month, SCOTUS upheld birthright citizenship, but now the Trump Admin. is finding another way to take aim at the U.S.-born children of immigrant parents with its cruel new “public charge” rule.
"In many ways, the administration’s strategy for Head Start mirrors the way it’s approached the Department of Education: unable to completely eliminate something they dislike, they instead seek to dismantle it piece-by-piece." www.newamerica.org/insights/the...
The Quiet Dismantling of Head Start: How the Trump Administration Is Using Regulation to Reshape a Program It Can't Eliminate
In many ways, the administration’s strategy for Head Start mirrors the way it’s approached the Department of Education: unable to completely eliminate something they dislike, they instead seek to dism...
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Last year's GOP One Big Beautiful Bill caused these people & millions of others to lose health insurance. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Soaring costs and end of tax credit leads 17,000 Minnesotans to drop MNSure health coverage
This year, 17,000 Minnesotans have dropped the health insurance they had purchased in the Affordable Care Act marketplace known as MNSure, as insurance premiums soar and a tax credit that many people ...
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CAP's latest analysis confirms what many have already suspected: Trump's deployments of the National Guard into American cities were never about stopping crime—it's all a dangerous power grab by the administration. https://ampr.gs/4wIPPmn
New research from @haileygibbs.bsky.social @americanprogress.bsky.social finds nearly half of all young children in the country (ages 5 and under) live in a licensed child care desert. Sustained federal investment is needed to build program supply. www.americanprogress.org/article/amer...
America’s Child Care Crisis Leaves Many Families Without Access to Licensed Care
The child care system faces severe affordability and supply crises, leaving more than 50 percent of young children without adequate access in 42 percent of U.S. congressional districts.
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Early care & education services are spatially differentiated. Using cell-phone mobility data, we measure worker & consumer commutes in a novel way, at the provider level. Great working with @gabriellepepin.bsky.social, @jborowsky.bsky.social & Liz Davis. research.upjohn.org/cgi/viewcont...
33.9 million public school students were eligible to receive free or reduced-price meals in 24/25 but thanks to the OBBBA, many are at risk of losing their eligibility. For a family with two kids, this means taking on roughly $2k per year to cover costs. www.americanprogress.org/article/cong...
Congressional Republicans’ Big Beautiful Bill Threatens Access to Free School Meals
Students across the country could lose access to free school meals, forcing the typical family with two children to spend $1,900 to $2,200 more per year for school meals.
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Check out the latest from @americanprogress.bsky.social on today's #JobsDay data. Wages aren't keeping up with inflation, and job gains aren't delivering for workers as Americans still struggle with affordability in Trump's economy. Read the full write-up ↓ www.americanprogress.org/article/june...
June Jobs Numbers Are Not the Boost for Workers That Was Expected
The June 2026 jobs report included strong headline numbers, but working families are still struggling to keep up amid higher inflation.
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5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...
Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last mo.The Supreme Court strikes down Trump's attack on birthright citizenship. By a 5–4 vote, it holds that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to children born of unauthorized and temporary immigrants. Roberts and Barrett join the three liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
'10% of kindergartners who start school at the bottom of their class in reading & math is proficient by 3rd grade... Students who read poorly at the end of 3rd grade struggle throughout schooling because they’re expected to use reading to learn every other subject.' www.chalkbeat.org/2026/06/25/k...
Most kindergartners in the bottom of their class don’t catch up by third grade, study finds
Kindergarten test scores can be an important warning sign, researchers said, and early gaps don't just clear up on their own. But the solutions aren’t obvious.
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'...from men onto women... from privileged women onto more vulnerable others... this cascade is fundamentally unsustainable, [concentrating] care in the hands of those who are already overburdened while obscuring and undervaluing their contributions.' rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
The Care Cascade: Interviews from Our Broken Care System
Why is childcare so hard to find, and who is paying the price? Jessica Calarco examines how America's care economy systematically shifts the burden of the broken care system onto women, immigrants, an...
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Trump’s Head Start rule change would make it harder for the educators who care for our most vulnerable children to earn a living wage, argues CAP's @haileygibbs.bsky.social for @theprogressivemag.bsky.social: https://progressive.org/op-eds/trump-rule-changes-would-kneecap-head-start-gibbs-20260626/
Trump Rule Changes Would Kneecap Head Start
Congress must make sure this vital program is adequately supported.
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“[My son] often wakes up worried because he thinks that he missed school. Then he realizes he’s locked up here and there isn’t school.” If this kind of abject cruelty doesn't make you want to throw up, I don't know what to tell you. www.newamerica.org/insights/chi...
Children Belong in School Learning, Not Left to Languish in ICE Detention
The federal government is depriving children of their right to an education by locking them up in family detention facilities.
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DC resident, can confirm: for people pushing that narrative this map is more or less the funniest conceivable result
Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · 2mo agoThere were some ugly claims on X that Janeese was the candidate of white “transplants” while McDuffie was the choice of longtime Black residents. But it looks like McDuffie will only win ward 3 (wealthy, white) while Janeese will carry every other ward (including majority-Black wards 7 and 8).
"When our kids thrive, communities thrive, and when communities thrive, we all thrive." It's time to invest in our children and build a child care system that supports our youngest learners. #UniversalChildCare
As a small business owner, child care provider Kiera Fernandez relies on the Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund program to ensure she can provide for her teachers and keep her doors open for local families and children.
"2022-2024: share of young children <6 who were uninsured increased by a full percentage point, from 4.3 to 5.3 percent (highest in 10yrs)... ~220,000 additional babies, toddlers & preschoolers were uninsured in 2024 – a 23% increase between 2022 & 2024." ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/06/01/u...
Uninsured Rate for Young Children Rose More Sharply than for Older Children from 2022-2024
Key Findings The number of infants, toddlers and preschoolers who are uninsured is at the highest level in nearly a decade and is increasing more sharply than for older children. The number of uninsur...
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Affordable, accessible childcare is not a luxury item; it's an essential first step in our education system. Hear from @whipkclark.bsky.social:
How do you measure childcare supply? Our new research maps licensed availability across the country — & the gaps are everywhere. Join us TOMORROW to learn more: 📅 June 4, 2026 | 🕥 10:30am ET | 🏛️ at CAP & online RSVP here: www.americanprogress.org/events/the-n...
The Nationwide Child Care Crisis: Addressing Affordability and Supply Shortages
A discussion about new research, the impacts on families and communities, and the actions that leaders in Congress are taking now to build toward a child care system for the future that supports the n...
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🚨 HAPPENING IN TWO DAYS! 🚨 We're hosting a 3-panel event at CAP & online exploring our new data on licensed child care access, what Congressional leaders can do about it, & how families are navigating this system. Come and join us! www.americanprogress.org/events/the-n...
The Nationwide Child Care Crisis: Addressing Affordability and Supply Shortages
A discussion about new research, the impacts on families and communities, and the actions that leaders in Congress are taking now to build toward a child care system for the future that supports the n...
americanprogress.org
The next pandemic is coming. Trump has eliminated the surveillance systems, research programs, and workforce needed to stop it. New @amprog report on America's self-inflicted vulnerability: www.americanprogress.org/article/how-... S/O to my coauthor Dean Perry Halkitis @rutgerssph.bsky.social
How Federal Attacks on Diversity and Inclusion Policies Have Dismantled Public Health Infrastructure and Threaten National Health Security
Federal executive orders targeting initiatives that seek to ensure diversity and equity for all are systematically dismantling America’s public health infrastructure—cutting research, surveillance sys...
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If you want to understand child care deserts, make time for this event on June 4. My colleague @gabriellepepin.bsky.social is part of an amazing lineup discussing the latest research, policy, and lived experience. Link to RSVP 👇
Hailey Gibbs, PhD@haileygibbs.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe child care crisis isn't abstract. It's a parent leaving a job they can't afford to lose. It's a young child sitting on a 2-year waitlist, their family hoping for a slot. It's a provider closing because margins don't add up. New research maps the scope of the problem. 1/2
The child care crisis isn't abstract. It's a parent leaving a job they can't afford to lose. It's a young child sitting on a 2-year waitlist, their family hoping for a slot. It's a provider closing because margins don't add up. New research maps the scope of the problem. 1/2
The Nationwide Child Care Crisis: Addressing Affordability and Supply Shortages
A discussion about new research, the impacts on families and communities, and the actions that leaders in Congress are taking now to build toward a child care system for the future that supports the n...
americanprogress.org
Since the Trump administration doesn’t track how many children have been separated from their parents by immigration detention, a Brookings report tried to calculate it — and it cited ProPublica’s reporting.
More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates
Since the Trump administration doesn’t track how many children have been separated from their parents by immigration detention, a Brookings report tried to calculate it — and it cited ProPublica’s rep...
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"... knowing how much of a burden [child care] is — it rivals mortgage & rent payments — to take away a lever that exists for affordability & offer no alternatives puts families who are already struggling in a really difficult spot." - @kcpeeks.bsky.social www.the74million.org/zero2eight/f...
Federal Childcare Changes May Leave Providers, Families in the Lurch
The Trump administration is rolling back Biden-era rules around provider payments and the 7% cap on family co-payments.
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