Updates from Our Campaign

On Tuesday, July 26, the Care That Works Coalition joined the Office of Early Childhood Education and Mayor Michelle Wu as she signed an executive order to increase the opportunity to raise [...]

Child care is an essential need for parents in the workforce: People can’t work if they don’t have the security that their families are being cared for. Due to generations of underinvestment in [...]

“Families face tough times as child tax credit ends” (Page A1, Jan. 24) exposes the heartbreaking reality of working-class families with young kids. Families depend on multiple forms of [...]

Anyone who’s counted on a child-care provider in order to keep their own job knows just how essential — how fundamental — that labor is to a functioning, equitable society. Yet somehow, there’s [...]

Families hit hard by the pandemic need child care relief. Trillions of dollars in social infrastructure spending may soon come down the pipeline for our state to start building a universal child [...]

We are excited to announce that Care That Works will be receiving $300,000 over the next three years from Community Labor United’s selection as a Boston Children’s Collaboration for Community [...]

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley Visits Child Care Home Amidst Calls for a Just Recovery Congresswoman and Care That Works Coalition call for a universal, equitable, and flexible child care [...]

Communities of color, working families, and low-income families across Massachusetts are facing the brunt of the high cost of child care in conjunction with the effects of the pandemic. Before [...]

ESSENTIAL WORKERS  are taking care of our state and of our nation: healthcare workers, grocery clerks, bank tellers, first responders, domestic workers, restaurant [...]

Know Your Rights: You may be eligible for unemployment benefits due to a new policy issued by the Department of Unemployment Assistance (DUA) With many public schools shifting fully online and [...]