Whether parents can claim their infants as dependents on this year’s taxes—or must wait until next year—can have long-lasting impacts...
Kendra Hurley is a journalist and researcher whose work has fueled reform and helped shape policy in education, child welfare, and homeless services. Her writing has appeared in Bloomberg's CityLab, the Washington Post, the New York Times, USA Today, and others, and her investigation into teen adoption received an award from the Casey Journalism Center. For over a decade, Kendra worked as senior editor and reporter of the families and poverty project at an applied policy institute at The New School. Before that, she launched an online journal covering the youth media field for the Open Society Institute, and worked with teenagers living in foster care for the youth media publication Represent. While coaching the young writers, she received a PASEsetter award for impactful afterschool educators.
Recently, an unprecedented amount of attention has coalesced around the U.S. child care market. In the wake of Covid-19—with thousands...
The Research-Backed Way to Keep Kids Safe
Anti-abortion lawmakers say they want to protect children. Here’s how.
Soon after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced on Twitter that his state would...
New York City’s popular 3-K-for-All program was supposed to offer free preschool to all of the city’s 3-year-olds. But last...
In 1996, the United States overhauled its approach to helping poor families using a commonsense-sounding yet untested idea: the notion...
New York City’s 60-year-old Fight for Universal Child Care
Today’s Activists Are Part of A Long, Historic Struggle. Will They Succeed?
As a federal plan to make child care affordable languishes in Congress, New York City has joined the growing number...
How the Stories Kids Tell Shape Their Worlds
A conversation with Andrei Cimpian of NYU’s Cognitive Development Lab
Why am I having trouble counting when my friends aren’t? Is it because I’m not smart? How come Mom quit...
Within a notoriously underpaid workforce, Louisiana’s child care teachers receive some of the lowest wages—making on average $9.77 an hour...
There’s a truism among child-mindful urban planners: Children are an indicator species for cities. “Just as the presence of salmon...
For decades, the Educational Alliance on Manhattan’s Lower East Side ran two parallel but separate early childhood programs. If you...
Every city-dweller has lived or witnessed some version of it: the mom on a bus struggling to fold a stroller...
Those following the debates regarding President Biden’s historic child care proposal may be experiencing whiplash. On the one hand, a...