Child care is where inflation hits the hardest for families with young children. For some, it's influencing how they will vote in the election.

Child care now costs over 50% of income for some parents. Moms are rethinking careers, family size, and futures. Here’s why ...

While Mississippi has added extra hurdles to receiving government-funded child care, it also left millions of federal child care dollars on the table meant to help low-income families. The ...

This story was originally reported by Chabeli Carrazana of The 19th. Two years ago, Nicolle Orozco Forero walked into an ...

Many child care programs operated on razor-thin profit margins before the pandemic, and losing income in the form of tuition payments for several months in a row has been devastating. “Frankly, the ...

Politics Child care, paid family leave proposals on the table in Minnesota this session A number of proposals could have a big impact on Minnesota families.

If you think the rent is too damn high, wait until you get the bill for child care. Parents with two kids in a child care center paid on average at least twice as much for that care as they did ...

Families spend an average of more $700 a month on child care, with costs surging 32% since 2019, a new analysis finds.

Even if your daughter moves her child to day care full time, there is still the question of sending her when she is sick. Contagious children are not generally welcome.

A new child care program will soon be available at the Table Rock Campus of Ozarks Technical Community College. Thanks to a partnership between the Ozarks Regional YMCA and Skaggs Foundation ...

Tracy Hanson teared up at her dining table last May. The Killeen child care operator had gotten word from Austin that Texas legislators would not fund her child care center or any other center in ...

On Saturday, $39 billion in federal child-care funds will expire, which could cause 3.2 million children to lose their spots in early education programs. The U.S. needs ways to address this crisis.