Just one day after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential election and endorsed his vice president, Kamala...
Long a Stranger to the Spotlight, Child Tax Credit Earns Embrace of Both Parties
Proposals to expand the benefit are coming from every corner as the election — as well as a harsh 2025 deadline — looms
This article was produced in partnership with The 74. The Child Tax Credit isn’t a subject you’d expect to receive...
Did you know that infants require up to 12 diapers per day? Did you also know this can cost families...
New Report: How Supercharging the Child Tax Credit Benefited Young Children, and What Comes Next
An Interview with Olivia Golden
The federal Child Tax Credit (CTC) expanded in 2021 to address hardships families were facing during the pandemic. The size...
Unequal Access: The Failure of Special Education in Indian Country, Part 1
An ELN investigation has revealed a systemic breakdown
Candy Mink Springs, Okla.—Until Sequoyah Littledeer was almost four, he didn’t speak. As a non-verbal infant and toddler, his parents...
Last year, the Department of Commerce announced a historic first: Companies applying for a federal grant program had to provide a plan for offering child care to their workers. The grant money comes from the CHIPS and Science Act, which passed in 2022 and includes $50 billion to expand semiconductor manufacturing and research in the United States.
Support for this project was provided by Better Life Lab at New America...
Cast in America as a pay-to-play system with limited public funding, child care has long struggled with issues like difficult budgetary math, low educator pay, and highly variable quality. An unprecedented degree of investor activity is creating a cascade of risks for the sector, risks which threaten the path toward an inclusive child care system which works well for all children, parents, and early educators.
According to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, 3% of U.S. children are in kinship care. This could be an aunt...
Franklin County—the most populous county in Ohio and home to Ohio State University (OSU)—is also one of the Buckeye State’s...
On a recent sunny Friday morning at the Daposka Ahnkodapi School in Pawhuska, Okla., the day began with weekly circle...
One sentence can hold a lot of heartache. This one, for instance: Babies born to mothers on Medicaid died at...
