CED Trustee members are chief executive officers and key executives of leading US companies who bring their unique experience to address today’s pressing policy issues. Early childhood education has been a priority issue of policy work at CED for more than 50 years.
State allies can call on the Committee for Economic Development to:
CED helps states with approaches that increase the quality of and access to child care and early learning; promote effective child care business practices; advance the professional development and compensation of early childhood educators (including tax credits); and bring an integrated approach to better meet the needs of families with children, employers, and communities.
CED helps states with approaches that increase the quality of and access to early learning; promote effective child care business practices; advance the professional development and compensation of early childhood educators (including tax credits); and bring an integrated approach to better meet the needs of families with children, employers, and communities.
CED works with state advocates and business leaders to identify policy solutions (including tax credit incentives) and promote new revenue generating options for early care and education.
On the Ground:
In South Dakota, CED provided policy background memos, child care mapping (including unregulated care), and review of pending legislation with recommended revisions.
In Montana, CED drafted several tax policy one-pagers for use with state policymakers and advocates (an overview of child care tax credit policy, tax credits in other states, and ECE workforce compensation state tax credit strategies).
In Delaware, CED created two online child care affordability calculators to show family income and expenses and the price of child care by county. A second Delaware calculator was created to show family income by parent occupations, expenses, and the price of care. Both calculators can be used with state policymakers to show the challenge parents have in affording child care. The online calculator, where users select an occupation for parent(s), helps policymakers visualize working family challenges.
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