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[ad_1] WASHINGTON, D.C. — Jacqueline Strickland has spent nearly her entire life caring for children in Washington, D.C., starting at age 7, when she began babysitting...
[ad_1] ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Across the country, the story for families is virtually the same: Child care is unaffordable for many, hard to find for those...
[ad_1] When Christina Zimmerman returned to teaching last year after maternity leave, she grappled with postpartum depression that she says could have led to quitting her...
[ad_1] This story was produced by The 19th and reprinted with permission. More than a decade ago, Celia Sims sat in a room with parents whose...
[ad_1] Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top...
[ad_1] DERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — On a bright fall morning last year, a shimmering, human-sized Hershey’s Kiss with bright blue eyes greeted delighted children and their...
[ad_1] WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said Monday that the government intends to provide $1.5 billion to the computer chip company GlobalFoundries to expand its domestic...
[ad_1] This story was produced by The 19th and republished with permission. Doubts swirled from the start. After Cynthia King’s baby Wiley Muir died suddenly at...
[ad_1] Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top...
[ad_1] Millions of families may now face a lack of child care following the recent expiration of pandemic-era federal funding. The child care “stabilization” funds included...
[ad_1] Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top...
[ad_1] Wendy Garen, the recently retired president and chief executive of the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, likes to say problems that seem to defy solutions —...
[ad_1] President Joe Biden’s administration is currently considering new regulations that will deny middle-class and upper-middle-class Americans crucial child care services, specifically hampering their ability to...
[ad_1] Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top...
[ad_1] This article is part of HuffPost’s biweekly politics newsletter. Click here to subscribe. Today’s newsletter is about a recent report from the White House Council...
[ad_1] A Norland trainee nanny in formal uniform. Graduates are not expected to wear their uniform once they start working for a family, unless requested for...
[ad_1] Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top...
[ad_1] The cost of child care has risen so high in recent years that some parents can’t afford to work. As of September, the average household...
[ad_1] Dora Ramos is a family child care provider in Stamford, Connecticut, where the temperature climbed above 90 degrees for a few days in July. She...
[ad_1] WILLIAMSON, W.Va. — Kaitlyn Adkins is studying law to help families in her community impacted by the opioid epidemic at the heart of West Virginia...