This story was originally published by The 19th on April 2, 2024. For more than a decade, Erin Farias has watched the low-income families who send children to the day cares she runs navigate America’s ...
As a growing number of states establish universal pre-kindergarten programs for 4-year-olds, New Mexico is taking it one step further and offering universal child care—the first in the nation to do so ...
San Mateo County Supervisors Lisa Gauthier and Jackie Speier host second county child care town hall in East Palo Alto’s EPACENTER on Aug. 27, 2025. Photo by Lisa Moreno Connie Rodriguez, who runs a ...
Sarah Foster, 35, quit her job in the summer of 2024 after the stress of parenting and working full time led to anxiety, depression, vascular disease and chronic pain in her neck and shoulders. She ...
Zohran Mamdani ran for mayor of New York City on an affordability platform that included free child care for every child from ...
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Lakethia Clark has spent most of her adult life taking care of children, first at a church day care and later in a child care center. She loves children, but after 15 years, she was ...
Christina Parker should be able to live comfortably in Mill Valley, California, a leafy suburb north of San Francisco on her six-figure salary working for a real estate developer. Instead, she watches ...
Devette Wright, a child care provider, reads to children outside the 24-hour child care center at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story, Va., in June 2024. (Center staff) VIRGINIA BEACH, Va ...
Some Minnesota families are in danger of losing child care after the US Department of Health and Human Services announced a freeze on child care payments to the state Tuesday amid a federal ...