WHAT WE DO

We organize parents, providers, and teachers to take collective action on issues impacting the care economy Including childcare, unemployment, and the safety net.

What we want

Our vision is for an Ohio where providers, parents and teachers across OH  call on the state to adequately invest in our children and their families futures. We are united in our belief that every child has a right to access affordable, quality childcare and early education.

The policy goals will focus on expanding access to quality childcare and early learning; protecting and expanding Medicaid, SNAP and Unemployment Insurance; improving the economic security of Black childcare providers, women and low income families and pushing back against onerous eligibility requirements and cuts to Safety Net programs that help sustain Ohioans in need.

WHO WE ARE

The CEO (Care Economy Organizing) Project is a statewide grassroots organizing project focused on building power with women, especially women of color who work in the care economy. Our project aims to call on the state to adequately invest in our children and their families futures. We are united in our belief that every child has a right to access affordable, quality childcare and early education.

In the United States, we do not treat caregivers and workers in the care economy with respect and dignity for their valuable and complex work. And in an aging state such as Ohio where the economy has shifted from goods-producing industries (like manufacturing) to a service-based economy, the nature of work has changed. As the care industries grow, wages and benefits are stagnating. In Ohio, women of color are more likely to be workers in the care economy while also acting as primary caregivers in their home life. 

We are in a moment where we redefine what a caring economy is supposed to do to support women, especially women of color, in the workplace and at home. 

Women have borne the worst of the pandemic with an alarming number forced out

of the workforce, especially Black and Latinx women. This crisis has proven we cannot rebuild our economy without bold investments in the care economy: child care, safety net programs that support women, and care jobs. Child care is infrastructure. It connects workers and jobs. It makes all other work possible. Parents need safe child care for their children so they can go to work, and child care providers that are closed or on the verge need help so that they will be able to reopen. And women need stronger safety net programs that help grow their total gross resources and their economic power in Ohio.

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