Governor Josh Stein has announced that the NC Task Force on Child Care and Early Education co-chaired by Lieutenant Governor ...

I had a fantasy that after the child care disaster of the past couple of years, there might be a more permanent, federal-level change in financial support for the sector.It did feel, for a little ...

Child care providers have used the money to raise teachers’ pay, buy supplies and pay mortgages. In September, those funds expire, one of the last of the pandemic-era safety net benefits to end.

WASHINGTON – The American Families Plan that President Joe Biden unveiled Wednesday promises to subsidize child care, make community college and prekindergarten free and give tax credits to ...

What rising child care costs could mean for families and the economy 06:03. The cost of child care has risen so high in recent years that some parents can't afford to work.

The cost of child care in Massachusetts is among the highest in the country, with families paying an average of nearly $20,000 a year for a toddler, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, ...

Editor’s note: This article includes descriptions of child sexual abuse. A jury convicted a former UCLA Early Care and Education center teacher Friday of nine counts of child sexual abuse.

Parents with two kids in a child care center paid on average at least twice as much for that care as they did for the typical rent in 11 states and the District of Columbia last year, according to ...

Letting the private market handle child care has failed. The service is both undersupplied and overpriced, proving that the private market cannot produce enough affordable care to meet demand. The ...

Child care centers would get higher state ratings if they are safer under one proposal. Rep. Ray Lopez, D-San Antonio, filed House Bill 4113 in March to encourage child care day cares to install ...

For the past two years, the Legislature has approved $7.5 million in child care subsidies. But the state’s dire fiscal outlook has made lawmakers look critically at all spending.

At the 1939 World’s Fair, the longstanding New York City social service organization Sheltering Arms showcased a novel idea for helping needy mothers: government-funded child care. The ...