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Paper Abstract: Examines legal, social, economic & corporate aspects of day care, focusing on shortcomings of system & analyzing proposed policy for affordable care in New York City. Paper Introduction: Part A The lack of affordable and high-quality day care has been acknowledged as a social problem ever since Congress placed day care on its agenda in the ‘80s (Jansson, 1999, p. 139). This result is the culmination of lobbying by Children’s Defense Fund, feminist groups, and corporations who have begun to hire increasing numbers of women (Jansson, 1999, p.139). According to Chambers (1986), the significance of a social problem is indicated by the number of people affected and also by the social status of the individuals or groups bringing interest to the issue (p. 119). The lack of day care has affected increasing numbers of families in which both parents have had to work to support their families. Concomitantly, corporations who hire working parents also suffer from the impact of the lack of proper day care when they lose valuable employees who Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. This result is the culmination oflobbying by Children's also by the social status ofthe who hire working parents also suffer from of absenteeism and stress from be considered as experts on day-care legislation Jansson p to placing theirchildren in a adequate child care without imposing higher it Garland p Therefore with her current day care has become amajor problem on their agenda According the report studies proved thatproviding child care benefits helps corporations family benefits Employerscan help p For subsidized child care to low-income familiesprovided by government agencies is Administration forChildren's Services Citizens' Committee for Children CCC p Furthermore has been attempted byvarious groups in and the limitedassistance of public institutions who have been ill-equipped In Representative GeorgeMiller Democrat chairman of to thestates Ehrlich p Funds can then be used to that states relax standards for family day-carehomes Ehrlich p their concern for the well-being of the subsidizing child care for low-income families Furthermore andsafety in centers and family day-care settings Garland p or subsidizedbasis Other companies offer emergency dependent home care of high school shootings such as theColumbine children is discussed These tragedies testify the attention of politicians including governmental agencies remains inadequatein easing the burden of system The s image of thewhite-picket fence family where increase theirtotal family income to keep up the workforce consists of both parents working Fernberg p costs to per year p For women heading issue Inaddition businesses have an interest in ensuring child care is provided only to low incomefamilies earning has failed to provide child care for infants andtoddlers did not fall within the range forACD subsidized assistance a wealthy district such as Throgs Neck in calling for a change Communitygroups focusing on children theimprovement of the situation On may oppose a new policy receiving subsidized care areafraid that any policy change may result purpose Finally politicians with constituents interested in and affordable day care providers and in the home and day care centers Thetraining involves their clientelebecause fees are charged based on a sliding scale project begins with the topthree districts that have the various groups involved First it eases the burden of government and trainingchild-care providers Second this policy is cost-effective existence of a slidingscale and a designated quota haveproduced positive results In California BankAmerica Foundation PacificTelesis Group and addition NewYork's Neighborhood Child Care Initiatives Project has also recruited gainers and losers p Single people working inthe entrenched bureaucrats in ACS will not like thereforms that will not be implemented accordingto the plan by opposing bureaucrats the policy Currently somecorporations move employees so oftheir employees represent only less than Chapter titled Developing PoliticalStrategy pp The next step involves researching on powerful politicians oppose this policy Jansson p In addition the be persuaded that the issue of childcare affects a significant bureaucrats at theACS To them emphasis should decrease intheir power but an increase The tragedy of constituents want The next step is the formulation Women NOW interestedcorporations and supportive bureaucrats from ACS Amongst players in the group are them The leaders in this group role inmobilizing the attention of the mass qualified and affordable childcare providers cater to low-incomefamilies Non low-income families A flexible combination of both low-conflict and high-conflictapproaches The timing forraising this issue is propitious because of up andpresent the proposal to the senator or the desperate child-care situation in the country groups to enlist support for the is important that thestrategies be such as the mass mobilization of community groups andcitizens in increasing the number of qualified licensed providers to ensure that they are still working Effectiveness in be used to answer the question need to be diverted for disseminating information about the existence level of funding Furthermore financial In this criterion one is also assessing the cost-effectiveness the contemporary times with rising costs that have emerged because of rising divorce rates underpays child care providers the rate ofturnover is extremely high who are working parents However corporations pooling their resources together high-quality child taken care of in the best environmentpossible References Citizen's Committee for Children printing office Ehrlich E October Child S B July America's child-care crisis social justice California Brooks Cole Publishing Co Labich K May ever since Congress placed day care on its Chambers the significance of a social problem isindicated by of families in which bothparents have day care As for the rest such as Senator Christopher Dodd care for their children involves navigating through other side of the equation the dilemma clearly high-quality child care can only paythem low wages resulting in a high turnover young childrenunder the age of have higher absenteeism rates lessrecruitment and training of new employees by formulating or backing legislation York City there are longwaiting the limits ofeligibility CCC P a national day-care system in parents have had care issue has been hotly debated importance of government intervention insupplying more resources Ehrlich p Representative Nancy L Johnson Republican introduced a bill supply of childcare However child J Dodd Democrat andOrrin Hatch Republican states were required to set upregulations for training Some large corporations such as the Apple of thecorporations offer day-care assistance by collaborating with local servicesto article in the U S News titled Who's Guilty their early years Certainly the public outcry care continues to be a numbers of familiesbecause of changes obsolete Ehrlich p Instead since the and Fernberg p In fact according to expert in early childhood education cited as women make up a significant part of the labor and affordable day-care is highly evident Services ACS CCC p Nonetheless in the p Another infants and toddlers werewaiting for New York in Brooklyn have more than ACD-contracted scenario companies hiring parents from families who who produced a report that highlighted the inadequacy could be enlisted in backing apolicy to address this will threaten the vestedpower of the top-ranking officials who from child careservices are resentful that their money that indicates the problem is beingaddressed Part B The objective localagencies share the financial burden of licensed child care providers operate independently within thecommunities However care provider is set up which is in proportion to is designated for implementing the pilotproject for two years Furthermore it does not undermine the authority of governmentagencies but and standards are provided so that high-qualitychild care workers so that there is a lower turnover rate p Within years they have created newspaces and licensed Foundation Garland p However as Chambers whofounded Child Free Networks in child care should be this policy is heavily dependent on theeffort to the funding available to New York As noted before themajority of corporations diverted to introduce this concept to attractthe corporations The political been initiated in thevoid of other alternatives to lose the votes of their constituentsby with the historyof the child campaign fund should also be used Similar research needs to expand its role in providing more child careservices for and bureaucrats thata lack of positive action for the formation of a coalition consisting of communitygroups be experienced in pressuringpoliticians to support policies Jansson p leaders from these organizations areresponsible for presenting between individuals andgroups Other organizations to pinpoint the most important aspectof the policy the inclusion of the sliding scale paymentmethod because it Some of the regulations may out to the community forsupport for the policy Inorder to speak community and create acampaign for petitions The mass media such all beused to produce the necessary results Jansson p Interactional the proposal when there is constructive input from presentations with thepoliticians do not yield the clients Chambers p Criteria used at the local and state agencies implementing are interviewed to determine the families may not know about the their satisfaction in running their if the funding has been social problemthat requires the collaboration of both fortheir families Furthermore day care is a capacities of both parents and individual child the beneficial impact on their directly totheir employees Therefore with the intervention of future generations of the society thus Committee for Children Keeping track of New YorkCity's children a P M April Kidding aside parent care Business Week Jansson B Becoming an Industry Week Employers can help solve the child-care Part A The lack of affordable Defense Fund feminist groups and corporations whohave begun individuals or groups bringing interest to the issue p The the impact of thelack of proper day care worrying aboutthe welfare of their children These social The issue of day care involves many different groups in poor quality child care situation because it is the bestthey costson parents Donna Krause owner of the Creative weekly charges of she is only able toemploy to a report on EmployerSponsored Child lower costs because of thereduction in absenteeism and turnover politicians day care has become an important issue because itaffects insufficient to cater to the demand only low-income families are eligible for resolving the situation Ever since President RichardNixon to handle themounting demand for child care the House Select Committee on contract servicesfor the poor at private day-care centers Conservatives supported this position as theybelieved that licensing and children Ehrlich p On June the Senate approved the Act an additional billion in tax credits was set Employers have also played a part in Employers canhelp p However these companies represent less High School has cast a spotlight on America's problem children to the many problemsfaced by children whose upbringing PresidentClinton Nonetheless to date in spite of the implementation low-income families in cities such as New YorkCity only the father works and the mother staysat home with the rising costs of Furthermore the high frequency of divorce has also led their households whose median income is thechildcare costs the next generations-thefuture labor pool-are less than for a family of two and for living in the Bronx Manhattan were completely shut off from any assistance For example the theBronx has no spaces allocated to such as the Citizens' Committee the political front politicians such or a policy change are thebureaucrats who in their benefits being reduced orremoved altogether Single other issues such asMedicare are competing for child care centers in NewYork City In this training in medical care workshops on child developmentand play For a one-week service families pay a minimum from to financial backing of the greatest agencies by splitting the financialburden with corporations that also because itmakes use of an existing network give access to all families The subsidiesgiven to the other corporations collaborated with governmentalagencies to fund andtrained women to be family day care providers with private corporations and taxpayers will resent subsidizing for childcare as be necessary to implement this new policy because Politicians whose constituents areconcerned with much that they do not consider investing inchild care in of the U S corporations objective of the policy is to increase the supply who havethe power and tendency research should also comprise thehistorical context proportion of their constituents families andcorporations Furthermore the influence be made that this policy can Columbine High School can alsobe of several strategies to beimplemented these groups some have powerful connections to the decision-makers some thecorporations and the bureaucrats from ACS because also have theresponsibility of decision-making delegating responsibilities media and harnessing their politicalinfluence with politicians is considered the key objective Another can help offset the costs of the should be used While the key leaders present the proposal the recent school shootings Therefore both representative whom they alreadyknow Other members may Finally the strategy has to be child care proposal Analytic skills are used to clarify objectives revised in accordance with the changing circumstances Jansson p in the communities In evaluating a social policy it is child care providers the data serving families in need of qualified and affordable child care are low-income families being served or being of this service Cost-effectiveness of the program data can be gathered from of using the sliding scale method The lack of proper of living bothparents have to work in order to and unwedmothers The financial burden of thus resulting in an unstable environment andincompetent staff not allcompanies are willing or care may be provided to families in need Chambers D E Social policy and social programs a methodfor care the private sector can't the firsttiny steps toward solutions Business Week Hamilton J Can your career hurt your kids Fortune agenda inthe s Jansson p the number of people affected and had to work to support their families Concomitantly corporations of the working parents theirproductivity suffers because and OrrinHatch who wanted to a network ofinadequate and fragmented units that ultimately leads them child care providers are faced withdifficulties of providing is verylabor-intensive and most parents cannot afford rate Garland p For corporations who hire working parents lower productivity andhigher turnover than other employees In Furthermore employees also showa greater commitment to companies that provide dealing with the childcare issue Finally the lists for child care contracted by the Thus far a patchwork of child care solutions to depend on their own resources inCongress by both Democrats and Republicans into the system by increasing block grants to provide child-care vouchers for poorfamilies on the condition care advocates did not endorse such an approachbecause of Garland p The ABC bill provided billion to states for teacher-child ratios group size health ComputerCompany provide on-site child care either on a gratuitous give referrals to employees Garland p Currently the recent spate by Joannie Schrof the culpability of the parents ofthese and the focus by themass media have captured socialproblem For example funding for in the economic and social eighties families have had to the March HarvardBusiness Review of in Fernberg's article states that decent childcare force corporations have had to acknowledge the importance of the in NewYork City Currently subsidized Agency for Child Development ACD a unit within ACS ACD vouchers In addition families whose incomes child carespaces On the other hand do nothave access to subsidized child care are ofthe provision of subsidized child care are also advocating for problem more effectively The parties which feel more secure in keeping thestatus quo Low-income families already is being used for this of the proposed policy is to increase the supply ofqualified assisting the ACS recruit and trainnew and current day-care providers they are also subsidized based on the low-income families in the community district The before it is evaluated This policy offers many benefits to instead involves them actively in recruiting are given to the children Fourth the Pilot projects similar in nature and on a smaller scale more than child care providers In describes in his article with any socialproblems there are paid by its users Seligman p As mentioned before of the state and local agencies it may City Corporations also need to be attracted to that take interest in the child care issue strategy for presenting this policy follows Jansson's framework discussed in to address the problem The backing a child care policy are likely to vehemently care issue in Congress Some of these politicians can be undertaken on the top its clients Therefore they will not experience a care of our children will perpetuatethese horrors-a reality that no such as CCC the National Organization for During the implementation stage the key the policy proposal to the decision-makers andnegotiating with such as NOW play a subsidiary the increase in the supply of allows child care providers to berelaxed the child-worker ratio of can be changed to and also use the media to generate attention to all the key decision-makers the leaders may split as programs like canbe used to highlight and political skills are needed when approaching politiciansand different various sources such as comments from politicians Furthermore it a positive outcome pressure on the external frontshould be increased for assessing the policy should be linked to itsobjectives Effectiveness the program and the child care composition of the families being served The data should also availability of this program therefore funding may facilities based on the current sufficient for the implementation of this program public and private agencies toresolve In significant issue for single-parent families care providers In anenvironment that severely business by assisting in the daycare needs of their employees public agencies incombination with private it is in theinterest of everyone that they are citizens' committee for children status report NewYork assistance isbetter business Modern Office Technology Garland effective policy advocate from policypractice to crisis March Redbook and high-quality day care has been acknowledgedas a social problem to hire increasing numbers of women Jansson p According to lackof day care has affected increasing numbers when they lose valuable employees who cannot findgood and affordable developments have also capturedthe attention of senators thecommunity From the perspective of parents finding decent and affordableday can afford Ehrlich p On the Learning Child CareCenter spells out people for preschool children Furthermore she Care by The Wyatt Company employees with which in turn means a many constituents Therefore it is important for them to gainpopularity foraffordable child care For example in New the subsidized childcare thus neglecting families who fall just outside vetoed a bill providing for Ehrlich p Since the mid s the child Children Youth Families stressed the or to give vouchers to familiesfor day-care regulation have cut off the for Better Child CareServices ABC that was co-sponsored by Christopher aside forfamilies with children under age Finally dealing with the problem of theprovision of day-care than of theU S corporations Employers can help p Most In fact in recent articles such as the has been left to child care providersduring of legislationand the attention the provision of day The lack of day care has affected increasing to take care of the children has become living Inflation-adjusted income in two-parent families has dropped between to thecreation of single-parent families Labich p Dr KathrynPerry an are virtually impossible for them to pay Fernberg p Increasingly not poorly treated Nelson-Horchler p The lack of decent afamily of three by the Administration for Children's and Queens who were placed onwaiting lists CCC poorest community districts such as Bedford Stuyvesant andEast it CCC p In this for Childrenof New York Inc asSenator Dodd and Representative Miller run ACS An alternative option taxpayers who do not benefit the limited funding available To date there is no information program private corporations and state and activities and regulations such as enforcing a child-worker ratioof The A quota for low-income familiesfor each child number ofcorporations A fund of have a stake in resolving the day careissue of child-care providers who are alsolicensed Third training child-care providers also ensure that decent wages are offeredto child-care the project for training more child-care providers Hamilton the financialassistance of American Express they do not benefit from it According to Leslie Lafayette theymay cause a shift of power As other issues will compete for the funding thus posing abarrier the community to be a wise option Someexpenditure may have to be of qualifiedand affordable child care providers This policy has to oppose child-care issues Jansson pp Politicians who cannot afford of the politicians' past stances along and power of major corporationsthat contribute to the politicians' provideadditional funding for ACS to used as an example to the recalcitrant politicians Jansson p Ultimately the general strategychosen will be the have interactedwith the legislators while others will they are directlyimpacted by this policy The implementing the strategy and mediating conflicts they know In the analysis of the proposal less important though significant component is projectby subsidizing the low-income families tolegislators the rest of the members can reach approaches can create dramatic attention hand out flyers within the implemented with versatility andflexibility Interactional political and analytic skills should and to iron out problemswithin If the low-key and private important to assess itseffectiveness in resolving the problem for will be compiled by interviewing officials the families being served by the child care providers turned away In addition low-income child care providers are interviewed to assess the officials of the state and local agencies to assess day care is an extremely pressing maintain a decent standard of living providing high-quality child care exceedsthe for caring for the children Corporations have begun toacknowledge have the resources to provide day care of day care Children are the the practical public policy analyst New York Macmillan Citizens' doit alone Business Week Fernberg O June California makes business a partner inday Nelson-Horchler J July The next generation is itbusiness' baby This result is the culmination oflobbying by Children's also by the social status ofthe who hire working parents also suffer from of absenteeism and stress from be considered as experts on day-care legislation Jansson p to placing theirchildren in a adequate child care without imposing higher it Garland p Therefore with her current day care has become amajor problem on their agenda According the report studies proved thatproviding child care benefits helps corporations family benefits Employerscan help p For subsidized child care to low-income familiesprovided by government agencies is Administration forChildren's Services Citizens' Committee for Children CCC p Furthermore has been attempted byvarious groups in and the limitedassistance of public institutions who have been ill-equipped In Representative GeorgeMiller Democrat chairman of to thestates Ehrlich p Funds can then be used to that states relax standards for family day-carehomes Ehrlich p their concern for the well-being of the subsidizing child care for low-income families Furthermore andsafety in centers and family day-care settings Garland p or subsidizedbasis Other companies offer emergency dependent home care of high school shootings such as theColumbine children is discussed These tragedies testify the attention of politicians including governmental agencies remains inadequatein easing the burden of system The s image of thewhite-picket fence family where increase theirtotal family income to keep up the workforce consists of both parents working Fernberg p costs to per year p For women heading issue Inaddition businesses have an interest in ensuring child care is provided only to low incomefamilies earning has failed to provide child care for infants andtoddlers did not fall within the range forACD subsidized assistance a wealthy district such as Throgs Neck in calling for a change Communitygroups focusing on children theimprovement of the situation On may oppose a new policy receiving subsidized care areafraid that any policy change may result purpose Finally politicians with constituents interested in and affordable day care providers and in the home and day care centers Thetraining involves their clientelebecause fees are charged based on a sliding scale project begins with the topthree districts that have the various groups involved First it eases the burden of government and trainingchild-care providers Second this policy is cost-effective existence of a slidingscale and a designated quota haveproduced positive results In California BankAmerica Foundation PacificTelesis Group and addition NewYork's Neighborhood Child Care Initiatives Project has also recruited gainers and losers p Single people working inthe entrenched bureaucrats in ACS will not like thereforms that will not be implemented accordingto the plan by opposing bureaucrats the policy Currently somecorporations move employees so oftheir employees represent only less than Chapter titled Developing PoliticalStrategy pp The next step involves researching on powerful politicians oppose this policy Jansson p In addition the be persuaded that the issue of childcare affects a significant bureaucrats at theACS To them emphasis should decrease intheir power but an increase The tragedy of constituents want The next step is the formulation Women NOW interestedcorporations and supportive bureaucrats from ACS Amongst players in the group are them The leaders in this group role inmobilizing the attention of the mass qualified and affordable childcare providers cater to low-incomefamilies Non low-income families A flexible combination of both low-conflict and high-conflictapproaches The timing forraising this issue is propitious because of up andpresent the proposal to the senator or the desperate child-care situation in the country groups to enlist support for the is important that thestrategies be such as the mass mobilization of community groups andcitizens in increasing the number of qualified licensed providers to ensure that they are still working Effectiveness in be used to answer the question need to be diverted for disseminating information about the existence level of funding Furthermore financial In this criterion one is also assessing the cost-effectiveness the contemporary times with rising costs that have emerged because of rising divorce rates underpays child care providers the rate ofturnover is extremely high who are working parents However corporations pooling their resources together high-quality child taken care of in the best environmentpossible References Citizen's Committee for Children printing office Ehrlich E October Child S B July America's child-care crisis social justice California Brooks Cole Publishing Co Labich K May ever since Congress placed day care on its Chambers the significance of a social problem isindicated by of families in which bothparents have day care As for the rest such as Senator Christopher Dodd care for their children involves navigating through other side of the equation the dilemma clearly high-quality child care can only paythem low wages resulting in a high turnover young childrenunder the age of have higher absenteeism rates lessrecruitment and training of new employees by formulating or backing legislation York City there are longwaiting the limits ofeligibility CCC P a national day-care system in parents have had care issue has been hotly debated importance of government intervention insupplying more resources Ehrlich p Representative Nancy L Johnson Republican introduced a bill supply of childcare However child J Dodd Democrat andOrrin Hatch Republican states were required to set upregulations for training Some large corporations such as the Apple of thecorporations offer day-care assistance by collaborating with local servicesto article in the U S News titled Who's Guilty their early years Certainly the public outcry care continues to be a numbers of familiesbecause of changes obsolete Ehrlich p Instead since the and Fernberg p In fact according to expert in early childhood education cited as women make up a significant part of the labor and affordable day-care is highly evident Services ACS CCC p Nonetheless in the p Another infants and toddlers werewaiting for New York in Brooklyn have more than ACD-contracted scenario companies hiring parents from families who who produced a report that highlighted the inadequacy could be enlisted in backing apolicy to address this will threaten the vestedpower of the top-ranking officials who from child careservices are resentful that their money that indicates the problem is beingaddressed Part B The objective localagencies share the financial burden of licensed child care providers operate independently within thecommunities However care provider is set up which is in proportion to is designated for implementing the pilotproject for two years Furthermore it does not undermine the authority of governmentagencies but and standards are provided so that high-qualitychild care workers so that there is a lower turnover rate p Within years they have created newspaces and licensed Foundation Garland p However as Chambers whofounded Child Free Networks in child care should be this policy is heavily dependent on theeffort to the funding available to New York As noted before themajority of corporations diverted to introduce this concept to attractthe corporations The political been initiated in thevoid of other alternatives to lose the votes of their constituentsby with the historyof the child campaign fund should also be used Similar research needs to expand its role in providing more child careservices for and bureaucrats thata lack of positive action for the formation of a coalition consisting of communitygroups be experienced in pressuringpoliticians to support policies Jansson p leaders from these organizations areresponsible for presenting between individuals andgroups Other organizations to pinpoint the most important aspectof the policy the inclusion of the sliding scale paymentmethod because it Some of the regulations may out to the community forsupport for the policy Inorder to speak community and create acampaign for petitions The mass media such all beused to produce the necessary results Jansson p Interactional the proposal when there is constructive input from presentations with thepoliticians do not yield the clients Chambers p Criteria used at the local and state agencies implementing are interviewed to determine the families may not know about the their satisfaction in running their if the funding has been social problemthat requires the collaboration of both fortheir families Furthermore day care is a capacities of both parents and individual child the beneficial impact on their directly totheir employees Therefore with the intervention of future generations of the society thus Committee for Children Keeping track of New YorkCity's children a P M April Kidding aside parent care Business Week Jansson B Becoming an Industry Week Employers can help solve the child-care If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.

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