The P-3 movement attempts to create a continuous and synergistic curriculum between preschool and third grade. This can help improve the quality of elementary education and sustain early childhood education gains. Municipalities or school districts can pl URL: Visit resource … Continued
There are tremendous cognitive and non-cognitive benefits to early childhood education. Additionally, free early childhood education programs can reduce the costs of early childcare. Despite these benefits, pre-kindergarten programs are not always publicl URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: 12/20/2023
College access programs are designed to help underrepresented, low-income, or first generation college students get into college. These programs offer services like college counseling, mentoring, academic enrichment, and college application guidance. Muni URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: 12/20/2023
Employers who support worksite-based nutrition and physical activity programs can help improve the health outcomes of their employees. Specific programs combatting obesity have encouraged behavior change through workplace spaces for physical activity, aug URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: 12/20/2023
To help ease the costs associated with transportation, employers can provide transportation benefits that come in the form of subsidies for parking, public transportation, or bicycle maintenance or pre-tax transportation cost contributions. Some municipal URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: 12/20/2023
Providing workers with advanced notice of schedules and the choice to decline unscheduled hours that conflict with other obligations is a way to support a healthy workforce . To increase the predictability of scheduling, policymakers at the state and loca … Continued
Flexible scheduling practices give workers more control over the schedules and increase their work predictability. Some best practices include incorporating self-scheduling, flexible hours, and compressed work weeks. Additionally, state and local policyma URL: Visit resource Date Reviewed: 12/20/2023
Paid family leave offers workers paid time off when they are dealing with a serious health issue for an extended period of time, helping another family member with a medical condition, or have or adopt a new child. While employers … Continued
Employers are not always required to provide paid sick leave to their employees. As a result, employees—particularly low-wage employees—are hesitant to take time off to deal with health issues out of fear of losing pay. Employers and municipalities alike URL: … Continued
Local governments can increase the minimum wage or establish living wage ordinances. States and municipalities have increasingly adopted a higher minimum wage than the federal minimum wage . Further, adjusting the minimum wage to changes in the median wag URL: … Continued
