When families can’t find child care, or the care they find is too expensive, or their child is sick, or their child care provider is sick, it’s most often moms who step up. Yet historic levels of federal early care and education funding during the pandemic demonstrated an opportunity and solutions: many state leaders chose to invest in the working conditions of early educators. Let’s invest in early care and education for all children and stop asking women to sacrifice their bodies, their well-being, and their financial security to prop up the U.S. economy.