Child care is center of governor’s human services budget
Lamont’s budget invests in universal preschool but does not meet the needs of other nonprofits, like food banks and ...
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Work Continues to Include Family Child Care Providers in Public Pre-K Systems
A new national initiative aims to help family child care providers in four states integrate into publicly funded pre-K ...
Rep. Suzanne Schreiber: Lawmakers have tangible ways to improve child care for workforce
Several proposed bills would expand child care access by incentivizing businesses, eliminating red tape for providers and ...
How parents, advocates want to make RI more friendly for families with young kids
PROVIDENCE – On Wednesday afternoon, a hodgepodge of parents, educators, other child advocates and even a few toddlers convened at the State House to set a 2025 policy agenda dedicated to meeting the ...
Child care providers face many challenges
Area day care centers and in-home child care providers are trying to provide quality child care, but it’s not easy. Kids Depot in Hutchinson and Stay-n-Play in Litchfield have been mainstay ...
Low wages contributing to Iowa’s childcare crisis, experts say
Becky Huisman has been in the daycare business for almost 18 years, and for the last eight she hasn’t had a single opening.
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Study finds San Antonio child care deserts are worse than previously known
San Antonio child care providers are licensed to care for two out of three children under the age of five in Bexar County, ...
Watering Utah’s child care ‘deserts’
In 2024, a Bankrate study found that 75% of Utah exists in a child care “desert,” where there are not enough day cares to ...
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Child care quality ratings are changing. Here’s how to provide feedback.
North Carolina's Child Care Commission is changing how the state rates licensed child care quality. Public comment is open ...
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High costs, extensive waitlists, endless paperwork: The reality of being a working parent at Yale
Jessica Thompson, an assistant professor of anthropology, has traveled to Malawi for summers to conduct fieldwork. But as a ...
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Why ‘Family, Friend and Neighbor Care’ Is Core to America’s Child Care System
When stakeholders discuss the child care system, they often refer to institutional forms of care. FFN care is an essential ...
What the ‘moral distress’ of doctors tells us about eroding trust in health care
When clinicians feel unable to provide what they believe to be the best care for patients, it can result in what bioethicists call “moral distress.” The term was coined in 1984 in nursing ethics to ...