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Alliance for Early Success Early Childhood State Policy Advocacy

New Alliance 50-State Report Shows Progress and Power Building at State Level in 2024

January 27, 2025

Each year, the Alliance for Early Success surveys early childhood policy advocates representing all 50 states and the District of Columbia to create its annual 50-State Early Childhood Policy Progress and Landscape Report. The 2024 report, released in January, shows that support for state early childhood policies and funding continued to be strong, with policymakers from every region and political landscape acting to improve their early childhood policies.

Minnesota Early Childhood Policy Advocacy

Minnesota “Coalition of Coalitions” Turns Years of Work into a String of Big Wins for Children and Families

October 31, 2023

From a new nation-leading child tax credit that will cut child poverty by a third, to $1.3 billion for expansion of mixed-delivery child care, to continuous medicaid coverage for children to age 6, to a long list of other wins for young children and their families, there were almost too many advancements to count in the 2023 legislative session. The secret to all these wins? A long-standing “of coalition of coalitions” in the state the centers communication, equity, cooperation, and authentic power sharing.

Alliance Allies Share Stories, Strategies, and Successes at CONNECT22

November 17, 2022

After a three-year break, the Alliance for Early Success hosted CONNECT22—a three-day event that brings together state advocates, national early

Family Economic Security: Allies Huddle to Trade “Whole Family” Advocacy Strategies

March 3, 2022

State advocates joined with some national organizations to discuss policy opportunities and strategies for engaging on family economic security issues impacting our youngest children and their families. The huddle highlighted early childhood state allies from Arkansas and New Mexico who are leaning into promoting policies that advance equity and family economic security.

Vermont Allies Prevent Passage of Inequitable Paid Family Leave Bill, Fight for Improved Legislation

April 7, 2021

Allies at Voices for Vermont’s Children have been fighting for universal paid family and medical leave for years. Their fight continues as they successfully fought against an inequitable family leave bill in 2020 and are advocating for an improved plan in 2021.

The National Center for Children in Poverty Uses Alliance Support to Develop Crucial State-by-State Early Childhood Policy Profiles

September 26, 2020

The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) has released an updated set of Early Childhood State Policy Profiles that provides a two-generation view of current policies affecting children birth through age eight. The profiles give crucial visibility into each state’s progress in early care and education, health, and parenting and family economic supports.