Kendra Hurley
@kendrahurleynyc
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Writing about cities, families & policy. Bylines: TNR, CityLab, WaPo, etc.
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Joined March 2015
What do many models of high quality child care have in common? Direct government funding. For @TheAtlantic, I explain why it's beyond time for the U.S. to resurrect its long lost goal of public child care.
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RT @blueridgegurl: @kendrahurleynyc When @kendrahurleynyc asked more than a dozen scholars which 2024 studies related to quality + impact…
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RT @ehaspel: I remain highly skeptical of separating pre-K from a comprehensive birth-to-5 (really B-18) care & education system, but this…
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Any studies out there on tax revenue lost due to school choice policies? Because in a gig/freelance economy the loss is real!
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RT @jackiemader: 🗳️Voters around the country overwhelmingly supported child care and other child-focused ballot measures yesterday, despite…
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Was photographing this homage to Shirley Chisholm at 7 am today, in Brooklyn, when a worker from the construction site across the street started yelling "F- you Donald Trump! F- you Donald Trump!"
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RT @SereneKhader: Excited to share this piece I wrote for The @newrepublic about how JD Vance's newfound faux feminist rhetoric threatens t…
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RT @BirdCentralPark: Happy Owloween! Central Park's first Great Horned Owl of the season rests high in a tree west of the Great Lawn at 83r…
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How to keep families in cities and also combat loneliness? Build courtyards into housing.
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RT @FastCompany: "It almost seems easier for someone to turn their place into a liquor store than a daycare,”
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RT @blueridgegurl: .@kendrahurleynyc nails it in @FastCompany. Mothers report missing + cutting hours, getting fired, declining promotions…
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@FastCompany I am esp. happy to be able to offer a bit of family child care history in this story, and particularly how home-based providers stepped up when the U.S. not only retreated from public child care, but also decimated informal child care networks during welfare reform in the '90s.
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many thanks to @BetterLifeLab for the child care reporting grant which helped me to write this
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RT @ehaspel: New @CELFE_NIU report illustrates how absurdly the U.S. underfunds early childhood. Whether from a child development standpoin…
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Is someone running for president besides Trump? Makes one wonder when the NYT homepage looks like this day after day after day after day...
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RT @joshtpm: This arrangement and editorial gloss may stand for, capture the journalism about the entire campaign
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