Students play at the Community School for People Under Six in Carrboro, a child care center that has received federal COVID-19 relief stabilization grants. The state Senate is expected to vote this ...

Ethan Quinn, 4, stands on a rock while playing with his classmates outside his daycare center in Concord, Calif., on Nov. 1, 2023. Ethan’s parents are among those who have opted for a private daycare ...

Even when Pre-K lasts the whole school day, working parents struggle to find child care before 9 a.m. and after 3 p.m. No state has a more ambitious plan for universal preschool than California, which ...

Costa Mesa’s Scarlett Lobo was working in the mortgage loan industry but left her job two years ago to start a family. Now mother to a 15-month-old son, she’s looking to reenter the workforce without ...

Robust public investments can lift the weight of the child care affordability crisis off the safety net’s shoulders. Among impoverished families who have children under age 6 and who pay for child ...