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2 Out Of 5 Child Care Teachers Make So Little They Need Public Assistance to Support Their Families

Wages for child care employees are lower than for animal caretakers and bellhops. In America, child care teachers earn a median wage of $13.07 an hour.

Jackie Mader·Nov 4, 2024·2 min read

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet focused on education. Caring for children during their first...

Recent Analysis: Even Before the Pandemic, Child Care Providers Were Overworked and Underpaid

Bryce Covert·Aug 10, 2022·3 min read

People who work in the early childhood education sector are crucial to keeping millions of American children healthy and safe...

Making the Bipartisan Case for Child Care: the Industry that Keeps America Working

Mark Swartz·Sep 9, 2020·4 min read

Bipartisanship is increasingly rare these days, but even before the pandemic, child care was an issue that could reliably, occasionally,...

A Top Priority for Generation Z? Child Care

New Survey Shows Generation Z Values Child Care as a Leading Workplace Benefit

Rebecca Gale·Sep 19, 2023·5 min read

Kelly Choi crunched the numbers on child care, and the results didn’t look good. Like the majority (66 percent) of...

Child Care Innovation: Centralizing Administrative Roles

Part 3 of a 5-part Series

Rebecca Gale·Jul 20, 2022·9 min read

Our country is in a child care crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic, which has shown how difficult it is 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

Bryce Covert·Apr 5, 2023·6 min read

The race to elect the next president hasn’t officially started, but soon President Joe Biden will turn toward defending his...

What a Difference Extended-Hours Childcare Makes

17-Hour Childcare in Rochester Is a Gamechanger for Working Parents

K.C. Compton·Mar 3, 2020·6 min read

When many daycare centers are closing shop for the day, Rosa Marie at Rochester’s Marvelous Mind Academy is just getting...

Working from Home in West Virginia, Championing #PaidLeaveforAll in Her Spare Time

Mark Swartz·Sep 27, 2021·3 min read

If Tiffany Gale got eight full hours of sleep a night, she’d never be able to get everything done. In...

Nearly Half of American Families Struggle to Afford Diapers

Diaper Need Increases Dramatically as Pandemic-Era Programs End and Inflation Rises

Bryce Covert·Jul 11, 2023·8 min read

Jasmine Smith couldn’t have guessed the cascading effect her three-year-old daughter’s broken arm would have on their lives. The older...

Child Care Crisis

2 Out Of 5 Child Care Teachers Make So Little They Need Public Assistance to Support Their Families

Recent Analysis: Even Before the Pandemic, Child Care Providers Were Overworked and Underpaid

Making the Bipartisan Case for Child Care: the Industry that Keeps America Working

A Top Priority for Generation Z? Child Care

Child Care Innovation: Centralizing Administrative Roles

Will Biden’s First Term Have a Lasting Impact on the Child Care Sector?

What a Difference Extended-Hours Childcare Makes

Working from Home in West Virginia, Championing #PaidLeaveforAll in Her Spare Time

Nearly Half of American Families Struggle to Afford Diapers

Think Child Care is Hard to Find? Try Being a Parent Who Works Early Mornings, Late Nights or Weekends

Opinion: Raising Child Care Ratios is a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Idea

The Hunt Institute Releases Comprehensive Resource of State Directives for Child Care in Response to COVID-19

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