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Author Polakow, Valerie.

Title Who cares for our children? : the child care crisis in the other America / Valerie Polakow ; foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich.

Publication Info. New York : Teachers College Press, [2007]
©2007

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 Moore Stacks  HQ778.63 .P65 2007    Available  ---
Description xii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-216) and index.
Contents Introduction: Who cares? -- Whose rights? -- Young, vulnerable, and poor : confronting the child care maze -- Struggling and juggling : school, work, and child care -- On the edges : when two parents can't make it -- "Difficult" children : disrupted placements and expulsions -- Immigrant mothers : child care in the shadows -- "It was a wonderful and different change" : when child care works -- The right to child care.
Subject Child care -- United States.
Child care.
United States.
Children with social disabilities -- United States.
Children with social disabilities.
Poor children -- United States.
Poor children.
Low-income mothers -- United States.
Low-income mothers.
Poor families -- United States.
Poor families.
Child care -- Government policy -- United States.
Child care -- Government policy.
ISBN 9780807747742 paperback alkaline paper
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