Mamdani’s Child Care Plan Is Audacious. Here’s How It Could Work.

Most politicians don’t even try to enact universal systems — the cost and complexity are daunting, and child care has long ...
Daily Journal

Program helps child care providers create healthy spaces

A new program is helping child care centers in Johnson County create safer environments for children at no cost to the centers. Healthy Spaces Happy Children was launched by Improving Kids Environment ...
The Post-Crescent

Here's what we know about the newly proposed Child Care Stabilization Act

Just weeks before federal child care pandemic relief funding is set to run out, federal lawmakers introduced the Child Care Stabilization Act — which proponents say would keep millions of children in ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

State opens assistance program for NH child care workers

Child care workers who earn too much to qualify for the state's existing child care scholarship may be eligible for a new six-month tuition assistance program. Editor's note: This story was updated on ...
The Post-Crescent

Wisconsin Democrats talk a lot about Child Care Counts. But what is it?

As lawmakers continue to debate how — and whether — the state should step in to relieve families of child care struggles, Democrats continue to champion Child Care Counts. Since its inception in ...
CNN

America’s child care problem is about to get a lot worse. Here’s why

Sarah Morgan was looking forward to enrolling her 1-year-old son Lucas at the Skagit Valley Family YMCA’s early learning center in Anacortes, Washington, this fall. Her older son Jameson, 5, had a ...