Since the pandemic began, thousands of child care locations have closed, exacerbating an already acute shortage. But health care worker Jada Carter was lucky. Her two children went to Hospitots, one ...

For Christina Townsend, the cost of child care for her young son was $1,625 a month in Northern Virginia, about 50% of her take-home income. That was on top of the financial burden of taking unpaid ...

Last June, years of organizing in Vermont paid off when the state’s House and Senate passed landmark legislation—overriding a governor’s earlier veto—that invests $125 million a year into its ...

More than three million children could lose child care as pandemic-era funding ends. Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our ...

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 ...