Paid family leave — to care for new children or aging relatives, or to recover from a serious health problem...
Dr. María E. Enchautegui had noticed a pattern. Puerto Rico had a very low labor force participation as compared to...
Just one day after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential election and endorsed his vice president, Kamala...
Fixing a Broken Marketplace
Talking Childcare with Elliot Haspel
Sometimes what seems like idealism at first can actually be canny realism. Case in point: Elliot Haspel’s recent book Crawling...
The American Rescue Plan signed by President Joe Biden on March 12 contains a number of potentially game-changing policies for...
Oregon is aiming to improve child care across the state—expanding access, boosting quality and building more sustainability into the system....
Universal Child Care May be Coming to Vermont
Could Provide a Blueprint for Success in Other States
In a nation where patchwork child care infrastructure has been wrecked by 18 months of pandemic, the state of Vermont...
Free school meals were a godsend for Lynnea Hawkins long before the pandemic. Her son was living with his father...
Bipartisanship is increasingly rare these days, but even before the pandemic, child care was an issue that could reliably, occasionally,...
After signing a $1.9 trillion relief bill into law, President Joe Biden is taking on his next big policy priority:...
This may be one of the saddest facts you read in a while: One in three moms in the U.S....
States are taking early childhood education seriously. A recent report from the Alliance for Early Success documents the progress. (See...
