Worthy Work, Unlivable Wages: The National Child Care Staffing Study, 1988-1997
In 1997, nine years after the original National Child Care Staffing Study, CCW interviewed directors at the centers still in operation to assess changes in wages, benefits and turnover; whether increases in public investment for child care have benefited the child care workforce; and the extent to which former welfare recipients are employed in center-based child care.

The National Child Care Staffing Study – Revisited Four Years in the Life of Center-Based Child Care  
In 1992, CCW returned to the original staffing study sites to assess changes in wages, benefits and turnover. Through interviews with 225 center directors across the nation, this follow-up study found meager improvement in teaching staff wages, identified in the original findings as the most important predictor of quality child care.

Who's Missing at the Table? Leadership Opportunities and Barriers for Teachers and Providers
by Marcy Whitebook.
This paper describes the author’s perspective on leadership within the early care and education field. Although written and published more than 5 years ago, the issues presented, remarkably and unfortunately, still remain salient to the field’s current challenges in developing and cultivating diverse leaders.

Care for Caregivers: Addressing the Staffing Crisis
This article was written by Marci Young, CCW’s Director, and first published in the Winter 2000/2001 edition of the National Council of Jewish Women's journal.

Finding a Better Way: Defining and Assessing Public Policies to Improve Child Care Workforce Compensation
by Marcy Whitebook & Abby Eichber, describes the history of the worthy wage movement, how compensation initiatives came about public policy recommendations to improve compensation for the child care workforce. View these charts on major initiatives that outline the process of establishing child care workforce compensation initiatives in various states.

• Major Initiatives with Individual as Direct Recipient (PDF)
• Major Initiatives with Institution as Direct Recipient (PDF)

Working for Worthy Wages: The Child Care Compensation Movement, 1970 to 2001
This paper describes the movement to improve child care compensation over the last quarter century as viewed by one of its most prominent leaders, Marcy Whitebook, and reflects upon the past and future of the work to improve child care jobs.

Early Education Quality: Higher Teacher Qualification for Better Learning Environment: A Review of the Literature
Marcy Whitebook, the Founding Executive Director of the Center for the Child Care Workforce and now the Director of the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, UC Berkeley's Institute of Industrial Relations, recently released this paper that reviews the scientific research literature about the relationship between teacher preparation and child outcome in early care and education. She highlights that BA Degrees are Best for Pre-K Teachers.

State-by-State Wage Data for Early Childhood Education Workforce
This compendium of the most recent available early childhood workforce data includes information on average center-based salaries in all 50 states compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Also available:

• 2004 Edition (PDF)
• 2002 Edition (PDF)
• 2001 Edition (PDF)
• 2000 Edition (PDF)

Then and Now: Changes in Child Care Staffing, 1994-2000
This Publication by CCW and the Institute of Industrial Relations University California at Berkeley. A landmark study of staffing and stability in child care centers which provides a uniquely detailed look at teacher and director retention and turnover. This publication updates CCW's 1997 study of “NAEYC Accreditation as a Strategy for Improving Child Care Quality,” (PDF) offering new information on the ability of accredited centers to maintain quality gains over several years. “Then and Now” is one of the few longitudinal child care center studies ever undertaken, and the only one to repeatedly observe those centers over time.

Estimating the Size and Characteristics of the U.S. Child Care Workforce
This publication by CCW and the Human Services Policy Center (HSPC) contains national estimates of the size and characteristics of the workforce serving children ages 0 to 5 (excluding children enrolled in kindergarten) and also attempts to build a new vocabulary for describing the workforce, conceptualizing and categorizing it more clearly than it has been done before.

• Executive Summary