The Department of Health and Human Services (U.S. HHS) has clarified that the Trump administration is freezing federal child ...

Think of how many people want to work and can’t because they can’t afford child care. … If they can get child care, then they ...

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Zohran Mamdani ran for mayor of New York City on an affordability platform that included free child care for every child from ...

Senators Jim Justice (R-WV) and Mark Warner (D-VA) introduced bipartisan legislation today to address the nationwide child ...

As she was preparing to send her oldest baby to day care for the first time, Philadelphia mom Elena Anthes was “filled with dread.” “I was worried that our choice [of day care] wasn’t the right one, ...

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Readers respond to a guest essay on the incoming mayor’s universal child care plan. Also: A gift that never grows old.