Dear John,
This week, Joe Biden's presidential campaign released its economic recovery plan. The plan cites IWPR's research demonstrating that, although one in four community college students are parents, most colleges do not provide child care, which is an essential support for student parent success.
Biden's proposed Economic Recovery Plan would invest more than $775 Billion in the nation's care work and education infrastructures, including funding for child care and other wraparound supports for students with children at community colleges.
Our Student Parent Success Initiative (SPSI) works to raise awareness of student parents’ experiences while pursuing higher education and to share strategies—like the provision of affordable child care—that hold promise for promoting their educational and economic success.
We are proud to be on the front lines helping to shaping national care policy to support women, student parents, and their families.
"Community college students with children sit at the crossroads of the social, health, and economic crises our country faces today," says Lindsey Reichlin Cruse, Study Director, Student Parent Success Initiative, IWPR.
"Policies that support access to high-quality, affordable early learning opportunities promote children’s development and well-being and improve student parent families' ability to weather this moment, setting them up to achieve economic security and mobility."
