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Neighborhood Villages in the News
Meet Lauren Birchfield Kennedy, a Harvard-educated lawyer and children’s adovocate who’s also Joe Kennedy’s wife
[Kennedy] met another mother with a newborn, Sarah Siegel Muncey, a teacher and administrator at Boston Collegiate Charter School in Dorchester. They bonded, in part, she said, over “a shared frustration over how, in today’s modern era could it still possibly be this hard to, as a woman, frankly just figure out how to go back to work, to say nothing of how do I ensure that I am still on track to achieve my career aspirations and potential.” Together they founded Neighborhood Villages. - Boston Globe
Viewpoint: Child Care Crisis Hurts Workplaces
A focus group of business leaders met recently to discuss an issue not normally associated with the business community: child care and early childhood education. The conversation was motivated not only by a commitment to do right by Massachusetts families but also by an increasing reality in the workplace: employees’ inability to access affordable, high-quality child care is taking a toll on employers too.