Berkeley child care centers are awaiting the arrival of a combined $80 million in emergency grant funding from the Measure C ballot initiative passed by Alameda County voters in 2020. The Measure C ...

On Saturday, $39 billion in federal child-care funds made available through the American Rescue Plan Act are set to expire. As a result, close to 3.2 million children could lose their spots in early ...

Oklahoma’s child care providers tasked with meeting new 5-star accreditation rules will now have more time to meet those requirements. Oklahoma Human Services and the Oklahoma Partnership for School ...

I had a fantasy that after the child care disaster of the past couple of years, there might be a more permanent, federal-level change in financial support for the sector. It did feel, for a little ...

On Saturday, $39 billion in federal child-care funds made available through the American Rescue Plan Act are set to expire. As a result, close to 3.2 million children could lose their spots in early ...

Hurricane Helene put rural Western North Carolina’s home-based childcare providers under an existential threat. The natural disaster washed over years of insufficient funding and lack of support, ...

A teacher at The Growing Garden Learning Center in Mooresville paints a student's hand on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. When Jen Palmer opened a day care and preschool in Mooresville — a small, ...

Ms. Booth is a senior policy correspondent for Vox. No major American city has ever built a universal child care system. That means that nearly three-quarters of American parents who are looking for a ...

Swannanoa residents walk through devastating flood damage from the Swannanoa River on Sept. 29, 2024. The remnants of Hurricane Helene caused widespread flooding, downed trees, and power outages in ...

Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old New York State Assembly member and democratic socialist, was elected New York City’s mayor on Nov. 4, 2025, after pledging to make the city more affordable through ...