On April 26, Alejandra Londono-Gomez will speak at the Maryland Early Childhood Leadership Program about challenges in the state’s child care scholarship and how we can improve the child care subsidy program in Maryland and beyond.
The application process for child care assistance creates unnecessary administrative burdens not only for families with low incomes but also for states. States need family-friendly child care applications.
On October 27, Alejandra Londono Gomez joined legislators from the Maryland House of Delegates and Senate — Del. Jared Solomon, Sen. Mary Washington, Sen. Katie Hester-Fry — and Clinton Macsherry from the Maryland Family Network to discuss the recent legislative wins in Maryland, as well as new policy changes…
For decades we have failed to protect farmworkers and their families from the corporate greed that has fueled harmful occupational practices in the agricultural industry. We must work together to protect workers and their families from the many occupational hazards they endure.
While Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is dedicated to much-needed physical infrastructure projects, Congress has failed to support the child care needs of men and women who are needed to do the work.
It’s time for policymakers to give this healing and hope back to our early educators. I urge Congress to invest meaningfully in child care to create a transformed system of care so that caregivers, child care providers, and early educators like my mother can be…
For decades, insufficient public investments in child care have created a domino effect of economic burdens and instability for families and providers.
At the 2021 National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA) Annual Conference, Ashley Burnside and Alejandra Londono Gomez provided an overview of the Child Care Development Block Grant and the expans