“I’m a reader!” These are magic words for Alvin Irby, a former teacher and the founder and executive director of...
The scene is familiar the world over: a parent speaks to their baby in that high, singsong voice we now...
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.
I’ve had the privilege of working with Elliot Haspel and reading his work on child care since I began reporting...
Terri Simms has run her child care business, known as Playtime Nursery School, in Dayton, Ohio for over 27 years....
In our talk of care, we frequently focus on questions of where, who and what. We rarely ask questions of why we care and what it means to care. Similarly, much of the modern care conversation centers around (very real!) struggles and scarcity. That’s why I was so pleased to read journalist Elissa Strauss’ new book, When You Care: The Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others.
Advocacy requires patience and persistence. And humility. Sometimes, all the organizing, letters to the editor and congressional testimony fall short....
Though national media outlets recently trumpeted the news that workers at a Tennessee Volkswagen plant had voted to join United...
Support for this project was provided by Better Life Lab at New America...
Identifying child care as the top issue facing restaurateurs in Texas, a new business-led group has set out to find...
The last time Early Learning Nation magazine sat down with researcher Dr. Chrishana Lloyd of Child Trends, she had just...
When it comes to caring for and educating children in the United States, Black grandmothers have never been on the...