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 child care center in her Redwood City home, cares for ...

All children deserve access to high-quality early education. Those who render this invaluable care deserve wages that allow them to thrive. Whether a childcare provider operates a home-based business or a child care center, all early childhood educators ...

The soaring cost of child care in the U.S. can now exceed what families pay for housing or college. That's according to recently released data that outlines the heavy financial burden on the nearly 14 million American parents who rely on paid caregivers to ...

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 getting paid too little and looking after too many kids.

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 scholarships can mean the difference between a ...

LIVONIA, Mich. (WXYZ) — If you have little kids at home, you're probably feeling the child care crunch. According to a new report released this month by 'Child Care ...

The vice presidential candidates appeared to find some agreement during their Tuesday night debate over child care and paid family leave, in the longest and most in-depth campaign exchange about these issues to date. In California and throughout the nation ...

If you ask Wisconsin families about their child care situation, you’re bound to hear some startling anecdotes. Often, child care is one of the biggest expenses in a household’s budget, sometimes surpassing mortgage payments. In dual-income households ...

To all the frantic parents who’ve survived yet another year of the summer-child-care shuffle: I salute you. It’s a well-established fact that in the United States, finding summer child care can be hell. In a nation with lengthy breaks from school—and ...

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of the 1990s revolutionized welfare in America, introducing work requirements for cash assistance and reminding us of a fundamental truth: Those who can work, should work. This principle ...