Reinvent is proud to present Where's My Village?, Fortune's podcast about America's childcare crisis and the stories of people who are trying to fix it. The childcare industry in the U.S. has been in a precarious position for years. Childcare workers are chronically underpaid, yet quality care is hard to find - and for many families it's almost prohibitively expensive. This has long been a problem that individuals struggled to solve alone. But when COVID forced much of the industry to shut down, the problem burst into the open. It quickly became clear to many that childcare is essential to the country's economic health. Limited childcare options limit the ability of parents - often of mothers - to participate fully in the workforce.
Luckily there are entrepreneurs, corporate executives, community leaders and politicians who see this moment as an opportunity to make things better. In each episode of Where's My Village, Fortune reporters will introduce you to these people who are striving to improve the system.
But in the first episode of this limited series, host Ellen McGirt seeks to uncover how the country got into its current childcare mess. McGirt talks to organizers, advocates, historians, and policy experts about the historical roots and current state of America's childcare infrastructure and why they have hope for its future.
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