Logistic challenges to accessing early-childhood education that aligns with their work schedules and locations leads to inconvenience and stress for working parents.

Policymakers should encourage more employers to sponsor early-childhood education, either individually or through local consortia. They should address redundant, intrusive, and unnecessary dictates regarding facilities and staffing. They can make it easier for employers to offer early-childhood education as a tax-exempt employee benefit. They should increase the share of qualified childcare expenses for which employers may receive a tax credit, increase the maximum allowable credit, or both. Or policymakers could create a partial tax credit for employers offering childcare to lower-earning employees. Policymakers also could support the payment infrastructure that would make such offerings routine and reliable.