Publications
First Five Nebraska publishes policy and issue briefs, original research and other resources to keep you informed and up to date on a variety of early childhood topics.
Legislative Highlights & Testimony
- Nebraska Legislative Highlights 2025
- Nebraska Legislative Highlights 2024
- Nebraska Legislative Highlights 2023
- LB58: Provide sales tax exemption on diapers | 2023
- LB271: Change reporting requirements for child abuse and neglect | 2023
- LB814: State biennium budget bill—section that addresses backlog of fingerprinting background checks required for the child care workforce | 2023
Policy & Issue Briefs
- Policy Brief | LB721: Intergenerational Care Facility Expansion | 2026
- Policy Brief | LB773: Nebraska Prenatal Plus Program | 2026
- Policy Brief | LB891: Regulatory Streamline | 2026
- Policy Brief | LB903: Home Visiting Referrals | 2026
- Policy Brief | LB856: Child Care Subsidy Eligibility for the Early Childhood Workforce | 2024
- Policy Brief | LB857: Create the Nebraska Prenatal Plus Program | 2024
- Policy Brief | LB874: Streamlining regulations for the early childhood industry | 2024
- Policy Brief | LB1178: Create the Intergenerational Care Facility Incentive Grant Program | 2024
- Policy Brief | LB1416: Child Care Capacity Building and Workforce Act | 2024
- Issue Brief | Early childhood apprenticeships (LR251) | 2023
- Issue Brief | Child care and the CHIPS Act: Guidance for Nebraska sites | 2023
- Policy Brief | LB754: Child Care Tax Credit Act and School Readiness Tax Credit Act | 2023
- Issue Brief | Fingerprinting/background checks for child care professionals | 2023
- LR378: Child care subsidy reimbursement rates | October 2022
- Investing ARPA funds to strengthen Nebraska’s early childhood professional workforce | October 2021
- Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER) | September 2021
- Coronavirus state and local fiscal recovery funds for ECE | July 2021
- Key provisions of the American Rescue Plan for Nebraska children and families | March 2021
- Nebraska’s prenatal-to-age-3 policy goals | 2021
- Nebraska’s prenatal-to-age-3 plan | 2020
- What the ‘fadeout effect’ really means for quality early learning | December 2018
Reports & Research
- Report: Working Families, Working Economy |March 2026
- Report: Unlocking Nebraska’s Potential: Child Care as Key to Nebraska’s Economic Future | October 2025
- Report: Impact of On-Site Early Education and Child Care: Primrose School at Hudl | September 2025
- Raising Young Children in the Current Economy (Perry Undem) | September 2025
- Report: The Nebraska Child Care Cost Model (LR151 Interim Report) | October 2023
- Setting child care subsidy reimbursement rates (FFN/Pillars Research) | October 2022
- LR162: Efficacy of the School Readiness Tax Credit | February 2022
- Innovative financing solutions to expand quality early care and education in Nebraska | August 2021
- Using tax credits to help address child care challenge | February 2021
- Council for a Strong America: Early childhood programs’ scarcity undermines Nebraska’s rural communities | February 2021
- The Bottom Line: Economic impacts of inadequate child care in Nebraska | August 2020 Overview | Full Report
- Step Up to Quality—perspectives on the year one evaluation | 2016
Business & Economic Development Resources
English
- Understanding LB840 funding for child care
- Business leadership in child care advocacy
- No cost/low cost ways to support working parents
- How to talk to your employer about child care
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Press Releases
- New cost estimation tool examines the cost of providing quality child care in Nebraska | June 11, 2024
- Nebraska creates child care grant programs to expand access, support workforce | April 22, 2024
- Lawmakers pass bill enabling more child care employees to access the child care subsidy for their own family needs | April 19, 2024
- State lawmakers pass legislation to improve the regulatory environment for Nebraska’s child care programs | April 18, 2024
- Intergenerational facilities grant program brings together Nebraska seniors, young children | April 18, 2024
- More Nebraska families will benefit from $2.5 million for home visiting programs | April 3, 2024
