Jessica Chang's videos and podcasts

Some news from September I want to celebrate. On September 23, the New Jersey Business Council for ...

Most working parents don't have time to become child care experts. But that's what finding care asks...

If your company offers a backup care benefit, here's a question worth asking: of everything you spen...

I'll be speaking at the Ambition Summit on September 24 in Santa Monica. 150 founders, operators, ...

Calling my Tennessee network: if child care is on your radar as an employer, this is the room to be ...

$132,000. That's what it costs the Baltimore Police Department to replace one officer lost to anot...

This summer has been a busy one for our Upwards team, to say the least, and this is one of the proje...

Last week I was in DC, with business leaders and members of Congress, talking about child care and w...

When The Wall Street Journal ran this article this week, most people read it as a story about pay. ...

Your company isn't deciding whether to spend on caregiving. It already is. The only question is whet...

Two years into our child care scholarship program in Park City and Summit County, the numbers are in...

"What is preschool, anyway?" Nobody hands you a manual when you become a parent, and the list of th...

Every so often we hear from HR professionals that they cover childcare and eldercare as part of thei...

Mercury customers now have one less reason to say "We can't afford care benefits" 😏 Commenting on p...

For the first time, child care benefits have overtaken retirement as a top priority for working pare...

The housing crisis and the child care crisis are connected in ways most people don't see. When careg...

Three stats from the 2026 National Parent Survey by New America and NORC at the University of Chicag...

In our data at Upwards, summer-related child care requests more than doubled from April to May. And ...

A family in Oregon just got 90 days notice that their child care was gone. Their employer had run an...

If you’re a municipal or city government leader working to solve local child care challenges, you wo...

I had a conversation last month with an HR director from a mid-size retailer. We were talking about ...

Happy National Child Care Provider Day and Happy Mother’s Day ahead! As I (also) scrambled to put ...

I joined Leslie Thatcher's show at Park City's NPR station this morning to talk about the impact of ...

A major research hospital system is closing its on-site child care center this summer after 16 years...

The "family culture" thing is real. People do stay because of relationships, flexibility, trust. Bu...

Upwards helps companies offer child care benefits. But here's the thing: we're a small business too....

We just released year-two results on Park City and Summit County's child care scholarship programs. ...

The Moms First Foundational Workers Report, released yesterday with analysis from McKinsey & Company...