Championing Child Care

ISBN: 0231112378

Author: Sally S. Cohen

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ReviewA comprehensive history and analysis of the politics that have shaped U.S. federal child care policy throughout the past 30 years. - Journal of Marriage and FamilyChampioning Child Care will undoubtedly stand as the definitive account of late twentieth-century federal child care policy making. -- Sonya Michel - Political Science QuarterlyProduct DescriptionWhy has child care legislation developed along its present course? How did the political players influence lawmakers? What do the politics of child care legislation over the past thirty years indicate for the future? Based on more than one hundred interviews with legislators and executive branch officials, archival research, and secondary sources, this book looks at the politics behind child care legislation, rather than analyzing child care as a work and family issue.Identifying key junctures at which major child care bills were introduced and debated (1971, 1990, and 1996), Sally Cohen examines the politics surrounding each of these events and identifies the political structures and negotiations that evolved in the intervening years. In addition, Cohen looks at the impact the election of President Clinton has had on child care policymaking, and how child care legislation became part of other issues, including welfare reform, crime prevention, school readiness, and tax policy revisions.About the AuthorSally S. Cohen is an associate professor at Yale University, and the director of the Center for Health Policy and Ethics at Yale University School of Nursing. She lives in Stamford, CT.