Governor Josh Stein’s Task Force on Child Care and Early Education has proposed six recommendations to address the child care crisis in North Carolina, which ...

A card game has been created by children in care to help social workers understand what is important to them. The game, named The Cards You're Dealt, features an image and statement on each of the ...

The number of home-based child care programs is seeing a spike for the first time in five years — but experts remain concerned that with a rising child care crisis, there are still not enough programs ...

Colorado’s employer-based child care grant program gave out five rounds of grants — most worth $500,000 to $800,000 — to more than two dozen projects.

Iowa's child care assistance program subsidizes the cost of child care for low-income families. The pilot program currently serves 900 families and 1,500 children, according to the state's news ...

UPDATED: May 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM CDT A child care worker caught on camera abusing children at a Blaine day care last year was sentenced to three months in jail and 10 years of probation.

A new analysis from the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute says there are "critical shortfalls" in the state's child care system, and the problems faced by Granite Staters are not new.

SPARTANBURG, S.C. — The Spartanburg Police Department has arrested and charged a day care worker with unlawfully putting a child at risk or causing harm. According to arrest warrants, Karon ...

Funding for the Child Care Counts Program was not included in the 2023-25 biennial budget, so the program is set to end by the end of June.

But when her second child came along in 2021, things got harder to balance. “So it was just like, ‘OK, I’m just working to pay day care, which doesn’t make sense to me,’” she said.

New research shows educational disadvantage begins when children are as young as two if they cannot access child care. With about one-quarter of the country living in "childcare deserts", experts ...

As it stands, Ibarra, 22, earns $16.50 an hour and is paying more than $1,200 a month for child care, after a steep discount from her employer. “Even with overtime, it’s barely survivable ...