Nation Aug 12 Child care advocates seek solutions as pandemic-era federal funding winds down By Ali Rogin, Kaisha Young
Nation Jun 30 How the rising cost of childcare hurts parents’ job stability The cost of child care has increased 220% in the last three decades, according to Lisa Hamilton, president of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, which since 1990 has tracked this and other issues around child well-being in an annual Kids… By Nicole Ellis, Casey Kuhn
Making Sen$e Jul 23 Watch 8:06 Some parents may be pushed out of the workforce due to lack of child care In the U.S., child care was expensive and difficult to obtain long before the pandemic. But coronavirus has closed schools, forced parents to work from home and shuttered some care facilities for good. With COVID-19 surging in much of the… By Paul Solman