IV 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 395 
Supporting the goals and ideas of a National Child Care Worthy Wage 
Day. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 27, 2006 
Mrs. MCCARTHY (for herself, Mr. PLATTS, Mr. GEORGE MILLER of Cali-
fornia, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. TOWNS, Mr. WEXLER, Ms. KILPATRICK of 
Michigan, Mr. KENNEDY of Rhode Island, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Mr. 
SANDERS, Mrs. MALONEY, Mr. HINOJOSA, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. OWENS, 
Mr. KILDEE, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. FARR, Mr. MOORE of Kansas, 
Ms. ESHOO, Mr. GRIJALVA, and Ms. LEE) submitted the following con-
current resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Education 
and the Workforce 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Supporting the goals and ideas of a National Child Care 
Worthy Wage Day. 
Whereas approximately 13 million children are in non-paren-
tal care during part or all of the day while their parents 
work; 
Whereas the early care and education industry employs more 
than 2 million workers; 
Whereas these workers indirectly add $580 billion to the 
economy by enabling millions of parents to perform their 
own jobs; 
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Whereas the average salary of early care and education work-
ers is $18,060 per year, and only one third have health 
insurance and even fewer have a pension plan; 
Whereas the quality of early care and education programs is 
directly linked to the quality of early childhood educators 
and such low salaries make it difficult to attract high 
quality early childhood educators; 
Whereas the turnover rate of early childhood program staff 
is roughly 30 percent per year because of low wages and 
lack of benefits, making it difficult to retain high quality 
educators who have the consistent, caring relationships 
with young children that are important to children’s de-
velopment; 
Whereas, the compensation of early childhood program staff 
must be commensurate with the importance of the job of 
helping our Nation’s young children develop their social, 
emotional, physical and intellectual skills and be ready 
for school; 
Whereas providing adequate compensation to early childhood 
program staff should not be achieved by further bur-
dening parents with higher fees, and therefore requires 
additional public as well as private resources so that 
quality care and education are accessible to all families; 
and 
Whereas the Center for the Child Care Workforce, a project 
of the American Federation of Teachers Educational 
Foundation and other early childhood organizations, rec-
ognized May 1st as National Child Care Worthy Wage 
Day: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress supports the goals and ideas 
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of National Child Care Worthy Wage Day, and urges pub-
lic officials and the general public to honor early childhood 
care and education staff and programs in their commu-
nities, and to work together to resolve the early childhood 
care and education staff compensation crisis. 
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