Elliot Haspel
@ehaspel.bsky.social
Child and family policy are my jam.
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Exciting news from New Mexico, proving that states continue to innovate in the face of the federal government's decades of inaction on childcare. Don't let anyone tell you there isn't nationwide demand for childcare as a public good. shorturl.at/tTENi
September 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Exciting news from New Mexico, proving that states continue to innovate in the face of the federal government's decades of inaction on childcare. Don't let anyone tell you there isn't nationwide demand for childcare as a public good. shorturl.at/tTENi
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State and local policymakers looking to increase child care affordability, supply, and compensation must continue expanding public funding. Tri-Share does not build supply or substantively improve wages and benefits, making it a poor solution to the child care crisis. tcf.org/content/comm...
The Tri-Share Model Is Not a Solution to the Child Care Crisis
Former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called child care a “textbook example of a broken market.” The problems plaguing this broken market were aptly
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September 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
State and local policymakers looking to increase child care affordability, supply, and compensation must continue expanding public funding. Tri-Share does not build supply or substantively improve wages and benefits, making it a poor solution to the child care crisis. tcf.org/content/comm...
Everyone having a sportsbook in their pocket is not, it turns out, a good idea.
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Unfettered Sports Betting is Bad
Some genies can -- and should -- be put back in the bottle
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September 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Everyone having a sportsbook in their pocket is not, it turns out, a good idea.
familyfrontier.substack.com/p/unfettered...
familyfrontier.substack.com/p/unfettered...
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"Childcare undergirds everything we care about as Americans." - Great conversation between @lbilik.bsky.social and @ehaspel.bsky.social in today's Fireside Stacks.
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Raising a Nation: Elliot Haspel on What a Universal Childcare Movement Will Take
It is no secret that childcare in the US is, as Elliot Haspel puts it, “a hellscape.” Elliot’s new book, Raising a Nation: 10 Reasons Every American Has a Stake in Child Care for All, is a welcome add...
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August 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"Childcare undergirds everything we care about as Americans." - Great conversation between @lbilik.bsky.social and @ehaspel.bsky.social in today's Fireside Stacks.
www.firesidestacks.com/p/raising-a-...
www.firesidestacks.com/p/raising-a-...
It's publication day for Raising a Nation! Get it on Amazon, Bookshop, or wherever you get your books!
www.amazon.com/dp/0197799299/
www.amazon.com/dp/0197799299/
Raising a Nation: 10 Reasons Every American Has a Stake in Child Care For All
offers a new framework for thinking about a comprehensive, inclusive child care system: one that supports families in all their diversity, whether they want to utilize a licensed child care program, f...
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August 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
It's publication day for Raising a Nation! Get it on Amazon, Bookshop, or wherever you get your books!
www.amazon.com/dp/0197799299/
www.amazon.com/dp/0197799299/
I have a piece out in @jacobinmag.bsky.social today, adapted from my new book Raising a Nation, on why good child care is about far more than just the economy-- it's about the very health of our communities and society.
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Childcare Is Not Just an Economic Fix. It’s a Social Good.
Even strong defenders of childcare sometimes rely on the economic case that childcare programs keep workers in the labor force. While it’s not wrong, that argument misses the true role of childcare: s...
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August 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I have a piece out in @jacobinmag.bsky.social today, adapted from my new book Raising a Nation, on why good child care is about far more than just the economy-- it's about the very health of our communities and society.
jacobin.com/2025/08/chil...
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Also look at this screen. Look at our roster of experts! If you want to understand what is going on with the economy and with policy you need to attend @rooseveltinstitute.org events and read @rooseveltinstitute.org papers.
At our recent webinar @kedseconomist.com compares the GOP budget bill to a toddler ignoring all the warnings and eating too much ice cream.
We know how that ends.
Congress has been living on ice cream for 25 years. It’s time for fruits, veggies—and a better future.
We know how that ends.
Congress has been living on ice cream for 25 years. It’s time for fruits, veggies—and a better future.
August 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Also look at this screen. Look at our roster of experts! If you want to understand what is going on with the economy and with policy you need to attend @rooseveltinstitute.org events and read @rooseveltinstitute.org papers.
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Today, the think tank Capita launched our "Unifying Family Policy" series w/the first three interlinked policy briefs in a cumulative effort to forge a family policy agenda responsive to the forces that will shape family life in years to come. (Series intro & links here: capita.org/a-unified-fa... )
August 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Today, the think tank Capita launched our "Unifying Family Policy" series w/the first three interlinked policy briefs in a cumulative effort to forge a family policy agenda responsive to the forces that will shape family life in years to come. (Series intro & links here: capita.org/a-unified-fa... )
Today, the think tank Capita launched our "Unifying Family Policy" series w/the first three interlinked policy briefs in a cumulative effort to forge a family policy agenda responsive to the forces that will shape family life in years to come. (Series intro & links here: capita.org/a-unified-fa... )
August 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Today, the think tank Capita launched our "Unifying Family Policy" series w/the first three interlinked policy briefs in a cumulative effort to forge a family policy agenda responsive to the forces that will shape family life in years to come. (Series intro & links here: capita.org/a-unified-fa... )
Excited to share the first media coverage of my new book, "Raising a Nation," from @jackiemader.bsky.social! The book drops August 11th and can be pre-ordered here: www.amazon.com/dp/0197799299/.
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New book argues child care is a ‘societal imperative’
In ‘Raising a Nation,’ researcher Elliot Haspel says everyone should want strong supports for early childhood, even those without children.
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July 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Excited to share the first media coverage of my new book, "Raising a Nation," from @jackiemader.bsky.social! The book drops August 11th and can be pre-ordered here: www.amazon.com/dp/0197799299/.
hechingerreport.org/why-american...
hechingerreport.org/why-american...
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Parents and providers know what they need in a childcare system: something simple & safe where all kids have a high quality spot. We worked with Community Change on a new paper w/ research rooted in conversations with stakeholders about these simple demands.
NEW📃: The US childcare system is failing families. It's unaffordable, unsustainable, & susceptible to corporate interests.
Today, we offer a bold vision to build a public, universal ECE system that puts children, families, and workers first. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
Today, we offer a bold vision to build a public, universal ECE system that puts children, families, and workers first. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
July 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Parents and providers know what they need in a childcare system: something simple & safe where all kids have a high quality spot. We worked with Community Change on a new paper w/ research rooted in conversations with stakeholders about these simple demands.
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Childcare in America is broken—expensive, scarce, & treated like a private problem rather than a public priority.
@ehaspel.bsky.social & Rebecca Gale on how the US has failed to treat childcare as the essential infrastructure it is #fixingchildcare 👇 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
@ehaspel.bsky.social & Rebecca Gale on how the US has failed to treat childcare as the essential infrastructure it is #fixingchildcare 👇 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Childcare is a hellscape for most US families. Why isn’t there a bigger push for change?
Long seen as women’s work, childcare is underpaid and considered a private matter for families – not government
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July 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Childcare in America is broken—expensive, scarce, & treated like a private problem rather than a public priority.
@ehaspel.bsky.social & Rebecca Gale on how the US has failed to treat childcare as the essential infrastructure it is #fixingchildcare 👇 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
@ehaspel.bsky.social & Rebecca Gale on how the US has failed to treat childcare as the essential infrastructure it is #fixingchildcare 👇 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I co wrote a piece, via @newamerica.org’s Better Life Lab, for @theguardian.com about America’s surprising lack of a mass social movement demanding major child care reform— https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/11/childcare-family-movement
Childcare is a hellscape for most US families. Why isn’t there a bigger push for change?
Long seen as women’s work, childcare is underpaid and considered a private matter for families – not government
www.theguardian.com
July 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I co wrote a piece, via @newamerica.org’s Better Life Lab, for @theguardian.com about America’s surprising lack of a mass social movement demanding major child care reform— https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/11/childcare-family-movement
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A private equity-backed company sent letters to childcare programs in the Midwest asking, “Have you ever considered how you might transition your business to a new owner?”
A fitting title for @ehaspel.bsky.social's brief on private equity ownership in childcare. rooseveltinstitute.org/public...
A fitting title for @ehaspel.bsky.social's brief on private equity ownership in childcare. rooseveltinstitute.org/public...
July 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
A private equity-backed company sent letters to childcare programs in the Midwest asking, “Have you ever considered how you might transition your business to a new owner?”
A fitting title for @ehaspel.bsky.social's brief on private equity ownership in childcare. rooseveltinstitute.org/public...
A fitting title for @ehaspel.bsky.social's brief on private equity ownership in childcare. rooseveltinstitute.org/public...
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And those that choose not to massively cut SNAP and Medicaid will have to find the money elsewhere in their budgets. I've been reporting on state childcare programs recently and everyone expects unrelated things like that to get deeply slashed if these benefit cuts go through.
States, unlike the federal government, cannot have deficits. The massive cost shift from the feds to states for both Medicaid and SNAP, will just lead states to either massively cut, or just abandon altogether, these programs.
Huge sleeper issue is how states will (or won’t) be able to absorb huge SNAP cuts in BBB. www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...
July 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
And those that choose not to massively cut SNAP and Medicaid will have to find the money elsewhere in their budgets. I've been reporting on state childcare programs recently and everyone expects unrelated things like that to get deeply slashed if these benefit cuts go through.
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More childcare providers are retiring—& without a plan, families face fewer and riskier options.
@ehaspel.bsky.social breaks down his new brief which explores how public policy can support ownership transitions that serve the public good #fixingchildcare familyfrontier.substack.com/p/who-a-chil...
@ehaspel.bsky.social breaks down his new brief which explores how public policy can support ownership transitions that serve the public good #fixingchildcare familyfrontier.substack.com/p/who-a-chil...
Who a Child Care Program Sells to Matters
I have a new policy brief out with some ideas on public sector solutions to child care supply
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July 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
More childcare providers are retiring—& without a plan, families face fewer and riskier options.
@ehaspel.bsky.social breaks down his new brief which explores how public policy can support ownership transitions that serve the public good #fixingchildcare familyfrontier.substack.com/p/who-a-chil...
@ehaspel.bsky.social breaks down his new brief which explores how public policy can support ownership transitions that serve the public good #fixingchildcare familyfrontier.substack.com/p/who-a-chil...
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📉 Childcare is a broken market—and it’s failing families, providers, and communities alike.
@ehaspel.bsky.social explores how public intervention isn’t optional, but essential. #fixingchildcare rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
@ehaspel.bsky.social explores how public intervention isn’t optional, but essential. #fixingchildcare rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
June 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
📉 Childcare is a broken market—and it’s failing families, providers, and communities alike.
@ehaspel.bsky.social explores how public intervention isn’t optional, but essential. #fixingchildcare rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
@ehaspel.bsky.social explores how public intervention isn’t optional, but essential. #fixingchildcare rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
One reason private equity-backed child care chains continue to expand is that there is no one else for independent program owners to sell to. In a new brief for @rooseveltinstitute.org, I look at public sector solutions that can put kids & fam's over profit.
rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
“Have You Ever Considered How You Might Transition Your Business to a New Owner?” - Roosevelt Institute
In a new analysis Elliot Haspel explores how growing private equity ownership in childcare is driving inequality, limiting community access, and threatening sector stability—and how government-led sol...
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June 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
One reason private equity-backed child care chains continue to expand is that there is no one else for independent program owners to sell to. In a new brief for @rooseveltinstitute.org, I look at public sector solutions that can put kids & fam's over profit.
rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
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Most of us probably know intuitively that private equity & investor-backed chains should have no place in the care & education of young children. Grateful for this excellent brief from @ehaspel.bsky.social that gets into the weeds of WHY & HOW we should guard against corporate capture of childcare.
NEW: Investor-backed chains are quietly taking over childcare—deepening inequality & shrinking access.
In a new brief, @ehaspel.bsky.social outlines how public tools can shift power back to families & communities. #fixingchildcare rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
In a new brief, @ehaspel.bsky.social outlines how public tools can shift power back to families & communities. #fixingchildcare rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
June 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Most of us probably know intuitively that private equity & investor-backed chains should have no place in the care & education of young children. Grateful for this excellent brief from @ehaspel.bsky.social that gets into the weeds of WHY & HOW we should guard against corporate capture of childcare.
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NEW: Investor-backed chains are quietly taking over childcare—deepening inequality & shrinking access.
In a new brief, @ehaspel.bsky.social outlines how public tools can shift power back to families & communities. #fixingchildcare rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
In a new brief, @ehaspel.bsky.social outlines how public tools can shift power back to families & communities. #fixingchildcare rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
June 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
NEW: Investor-backed chains are quietly taking over childcare—deepening inequality & shrinking access.
In a new brief, @ehaspel.bsky.social outlines how public tools can shift power back to families & communities. #fixingchildcare rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
In a new brief, @ehaspel.bsky.social outlines how public tools can shift power back to families & communities. #fixingchildcare rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
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It's refreshing that these people aren't using a pretext of concern over the program's rollout to scuttle it. The move is transparently about the wishes of the very wealthy over the will of the voters. You can dislike Preschool for All & still see that this is bad: actionnetwork.org/letters/no-o...
NO ON SB106
Late at night on June 24, the Senate Finance Committee requested a last-minute amendment to S.B. 106, specifically written to kill Preschool for All. You can read reporting about this wildly undemocra...
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June 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
It's refreshing that these people aren't using a pretext of concern over the program's rollout to scuttle it. The move is transparently about the wishes of the very wealthy over the will of the voters. You can dislike Preschool for All & still see that this is bad: actionnetwork.org/letters/no-o...
In Oregon, the Democratic governor and Dem state senators are trying a cloak-and-dagger maneuver in the final days of session to pre-empt a locality (Portland area) from collecting a tax that its voters overwhelmingly passed to support universal pre-K.
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June 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
In Oregon, the Democratic governor and Dem state senators are trying a cloak-and-dagger maneuver in the final days of session to pre-empt a locality (Portland area) from collecting a tax that its voters overwhelmingly passed to support universal pre-K.
familyfrontier.substack.com/p/oregon-is-...
familyfrontier.substack.com/p/oregon-is-...
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"How can anyone or any organization that claims to have the backs of children and families do anything but be in full-throated opposition to this bill?...it’s a matter of this is a terrible piece of legislation that will do enormous harm" the latest from @ehaspel.bsky.social
It's OK to Call a Bad Bill a Bad Bill
You do not in fact 'gotta hand it' to the GOP for putting in a few not-awful tax bill provisions
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June 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
"How can anyone or any organization that claims to have the backs of children and families do anything but be in full-throated opposition to this bill?...it’s a matter of this is a terrible piece of legislation that will do enormous harm" the latest from @ehaspel.bsky.social