Restorative justice must guide CT’s early childhood investments

Restorative justice must guide CT’s early childhood investments

Long before “childcare” became a public concern, it was an economic necessity, met by the labor of enslaved and later impoverished Black women. Black women cared for white children while being denied the right and opportunity to care for their own. When the government crafted social safety nets under the New Deal, Black women were intentionally excluded from the economic protections that shaped the American middle class. During the New Deal era,…