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 ...
The $39 billion investment in child care through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) was a critically needed lifeline for an already underfunded sector during an incredibly challenging time. As the ...
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 ...
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, ...
From left: Beth Flippo and Karen Marshall, both Arkansas child care providers and members of an emergency child care task force, discuss potential changes to the state’s financial assistance program ...
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, ...
When Hurricane Helene swept through Kelsey Crabtree’s small hometown of Black Mountain, North Carolina, two years ago, its fierce winds uprooted a large tree that landed on the roof of her house, ...
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 ...