Penelope Whitney

Nov 3, 2024 | thehill.com | Caitlin McLean |Penelope Whitney

Have you heard? Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), the Republican vice presidential nominee, has an idea to fix child care: ask “grandma or grandpa” or “an aunt or uncle” to “help out a little bit more.” In other words, just ask women to take on more care work. Because, yes, even in 2024, it is still overwhelmingly women who care for children.

Oct 10, 2024 | phys.org | Penelope Whitney

A new report from the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (CSCCE) at UC Berkeley finds that child care workers in every state struggle with poverty-level wages, even as they nurture and educate our children in the most important years of development.

Feb 3, 2023 | news.berkeley.edu | Edward Lempinen |Penelope Whitney

The Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (CSCCE) at UC Berkeley has been selected to help lead a major new federal project that will explore how to strengthen the U.S. child care system by improving conditions for its workforce. CSCCE has been a prominent voice in warning that poverty-level wages and chronic race and gender inequities are putting the nation’s child care system in jeopardy, with a direct impact on children, working families and the wider economy.