Citing the lack of affordable access to child care in rural communities, a bipartisan group of lawmakers has sponsored a...
States are taking early childhood education seriously. A recent report from the Alliance for Early Success documents the progress. (See...
Since the program expired, child poverty rates have crept back up. U.S. households are having to pay between $300 to $400 more each month compared to last year because of inflation.
Within a notoriously underpaid workforce, Louisiana’s child care teachers receive some of the lowest wages—making on average $9.77 an hour...
Every city-dweller has lived or witnessed some version of it: the mom on a bus struggling to fold a stroller...
Experts say that every dollar invested in care produces $9 in spending. Child care spending in particular both creates jobs...
Infants and young children are rarely at the forefront of state and national policy agendas. For the good of the nation and the future of our world, they should be.
In this two-part series, Elliot Haspel explores how one Oregon region mobilized to generate an innovative, next-generation plan for universal...
In 2015, only about one in seven children in families who were eligible under federal income rules received a subsidy....
Early education advocates cheered when President Biden’s State of the Union address noted that children who attend preschool are nearly...