[Report] Unlocking Nebraska’s Potential: Child Care as a Key to Nebraska’s Economic Future
Access to child care is fundamental to our state’s ability to field a competitive, highly productive workforce while ensuring economic opportunity for hard working families throughout Nebraska. But as the expense of purchasing child care continues to grow faster than household incomes, parents face increasingly serious obstacles to staying employed, being fully engaged at their jobs and providing for their families. That comes at a heavy cost not only to families, but to employers and our economy as a whole.
Unlocking Nebraska’s Potential: Child Care as a Key to Nebraska’s Economic Future highlights how child care challenges are increasingly shaping the state’s workforce and economic well being. It updates earlier impact estimates published in the 2020 Bottom Line report, incorporates perspectives from business leaders and explores Nebraska’s child care issues in relation to neighboring states.
