Jennifer Lee Consulting

05/23/2026

05/21/2026

“Sam Snideman and Taylor Hughes: Businesses should seize the chance to partner on child care”

If Indiana wants more working parents — especially moms — back in the game, we must treat child care like the economic infrastructure it is.

05/20/2026

This evening, I attended the Fayette County Early Learning Coalition meeting. I am excited to see community partners working together to strengthen early learning and child care in Fayette County!

05/14/2026

Now is the time to speak up!

Early Childhood Education Professionals , make sure you are sharing with the families you serve, your neighbors, your legislators and everyone else that you are an educated, early childhood education professional.

Instead of limiting access to ECE higher education, we need to find ways to increase wages for those who are laying a foundation for kindergarten readiness, future learning, and adulthood success!

05/12/2026

05/12/2026

Today, the Trump Administration released a final rule for the Child Care and Development Fund, rescinding regulations designed to ensure improved payment practices for child care providers.

05/09/2026

Indiana businesses can get up to $100,000 in tax credits to help pay for workers' childcare under a new law that marks one of Republican leaders' first responses to a spiraling childcare crisis.

05/07/2026

05/02/2026

“Child care is a vital piece of infrastructure. For one, child-care programs support the military’s ability to fight wars, given that roughly a third of active-duty service members are parents. More broadly, child care influences parents’ ability to participate in the labor market, which can have far-reaching economic consequences, as well as unmistakable social effects. Parents who can’t find caregiving help have less time to tend to their own needs and health, and risk becoming isolated from other adults. And of course, individuals who don’t themselves have young children rely on doctors, firefighters, police officers, farmers, grocery-store workers, and teachers who do. When the system falters, Americans with and without kids pay a price.”

The president’s broad policies are making a bad situation worse.

04/28/2026

OECOSL presents at 10:00 am.

FSSA was established by the Indiana General Assembly in 1991 to consolidate and better integrate the delivery of human services by state government. FSSA is a health care and social services funding agency. Ninety-four percent of the agency’s total budget is paid to thousands of service providers ...