Isis Mabel made just $4.50 an hour caring for three children when she arrived in Massachusetts from Mexico as an...
Bryce Covert is an independent journalist writing about the economy. She is a contributing op-ed writer at the New York Times and a contributing writer at The Nation. Her writing has appeared in Time Magazine, the Washington Post, New York Magazine, the New Republic, Slate, and others, and she won a 2016 Exceptional Merit in Media Award from the National Women’s Political Caucus. She has appeared on ABC, CBS, MSNBC, NPR, and other outlets. She was previously Economic Editor at ThinkProgress, Editor of the Roosevelt Institute’s Next New Deal blog, and a contributor at Forbes. She also worked as a financial reporter and head of the energy sector at mergermarket, an online newswire that is part of the Financial Times group.
Chelsea Page knew when she was pregnant with her second child that, once the baby was born, she was going...
“Gold Standard” Study Finds High-Quality Care Is Important in Infancy
Study Finds the Benefits Last Well Into Elementary School
By now the benefits of high-quality preschool are widely accepted. But there are still open questions about its impact: Is...
Nearly Half of American Families Struggle to Afford Diapers
Diaper Need Increases Dramatically as Pandemic-Era Programs End and Inflation Rises
Jasmine Smith couldn’t have guessed the cascading effect her three-year-old daughter’s broken arm would have on their lives. The older...
Colorado Pilot Gives Home Child Care Providers Cash Payments with No Strings Attached
More Providers Stay Open and Manage Income Fluctuations
Angelica Lerrga started caring for children in the basement of her sister’s Colorado home in 2009, after her husband had...
It’s hard enough to find child care in this country that is dependable and affordable when working a regular 9...
More than 700 Child Care Providers Shut Their Doors to Demand Better Pay
“Without Child Care, There’s No Workforce”
Lorretta Johnson has been running a child care out of her home in Austin, Texas since 1999, caring mostly for...
Will Biden’s First Term Have a Lasting Impact on the Child Care Sector?
New Annual Budget Devotes $600 Billion Over 10 Years to Child Care and Early Childhood Education
The race to elect the next president hasn’t officially started, but soon President Joe Biden will turn toward defending his...
Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy made headlines and history when it took 15 rounds of votes for his...
Deborah VanderGaast originally started running a child care business out of her home in Tipton, Iowa in 2005 serving children...
Yesterday, New Mexico voters made history: they overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment that makes theirs the first state to guarantee...
Free school meals were a godsend for Lynnea Hawkins long before the pandemic. Her son was living with his father...