{"id":7647,"date":"2018-08-28T18:10:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T18:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/08\/31\/child-care-is-broken-silicon-valley-thinks-it-can-fix-that-too\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:15:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:15:20","slug":"child-care-is-broken-silicon-valley-thinks-it-can-fix-that-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/child-care-is-broken-silicon-valley-thinks-it-can-fix-that-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Child care is broken. Silicon Valley thinks it can fix that, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where and how we work has changed dramatically over the last several decades. In response to great cultural and social transformations that affect young children, Furman University alums Brandon Hinman &#8217;03 (philosophy), Grady Powell &#8217;03 (economics) and Joe Waters &#8217;05 (history) launched non-profit think tank Capita earlier this year. Their company was featured in a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1366203\/child-care-in-the-us-is-broken-wonderschool-thinks-it-has-the-solution\/\">Quartz<\/a> <\/strong>article by Jenny Anderson. Said Capita co-founder and CEO Waters, &#8220;We are interested in the future of caregiving in light of the future of work. How does child care need to adapt as the workforce and workplace change?&#8221; Capita collaborates with KnowledgeWorks, a\u00a0Cincinnati-based education research organization led by Furman alum, Chuck Ambrose \u201983 (sociology).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where and how we work has changed dramatically over the last several decades. In response to great cultural and social transformations that affect young children, Furman University alums Brandon Hinman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":7648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,46,42,6,36,22,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-economics","category-history","category-in-the-news","category-philosophy","category-sociology","category-the-furman-advantage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}