The Stanford Center on Early Childhood’s RAPID project started surveying child care providers around the country back in 2021, when about 40% of workers said they struggled to afford a basic need. In ...

PHOENIX (AP) — For parents who need to work but can’t afford the steep cost of child care, federally funded scholarships can be a lifeline. Delivered through state child care assistance programs, the ...

The challenges facing families with young children are legion. From affording the costly basics — like diapers, clothes and food — to the exhausting search for high-quality, reasonably priced child ...

There’s a dizzying array of childhood programs, schools and child-care options — all with slightly different names and definitions — which can be confusing to parents trying to make decisions about ...

Among impoverished families who have children under age 6 and who pay for child care, 35 percent were pushed into poverty by these expenses, totaling about 134,000 families per year. Each year, an ...

Imagine a politician stepping up to a podium and promising that voters will not pay more than 7 percent of their income for their kid to go to public school. This scene likely strikes you as absurd.

Increased Bipartisan Focus on Child Care Must Lead To Congressional Action Interactive Timeline of Federal Child Care Legislation, 2013–2025 CAP analysis finds that the 118th Congress, facing more ...

A few weeks ago, I got a panicked message from Jason Cohen, a dad in upstate New York. He told me that the day care where his twin toddlers had been happily ensconced for over a year, J.A.C.E. Daycare ...

This article was originally published in LAist. The number of child care workers who struggle to meet basic needs like food, healthcare and housing is on the rise, according to a new report. The ...