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 ...

This week, we’re bringing you stories about what it costs to raise a child in 2025, and how families are making it work. Child care in America is broken. Working parents with young children are ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Finding high-quality, affordable child care is hard. Just ask any parent. But when a child has special needs, child care suddenly gets a whole lot harder -- for parents and child ...

It started as an “if you know, you know” situation for stressed parents dealing with the high costs of — and often slim options for — child care. Then, during the pandemic, the difficulty mounted. Now ...

It’s 5 a.m. and Tiffany Gale is up, as she is every morning, and the first thing she does is check to see if any of her child care staff have called out sick. “They each have kids of their own, and ...