The COVID-19 crisis has been hard on a lot of small businesses and particularly so for child-care providers, many of which were on shaky financial ground to start with. A large number have closed ...

I retired from the practice of family child care last December after 29 years. That same month, I attended a funeral for Deanna Robles, an amazing family child care provider and early care and ...

Carmela Enriquez cares for five children in her home-based child care program in Greeley, Colorado. Her first “client,” a baby, arrives at 5 a.m., blanket clutched tight in his fist. She lets him ...

Last fall, Gisela Sance’s landlord approached her family about raising the rent. He wanted $2,000 a month, an astonishing hike over the $1,300 she and her husband were paying for the house they lived ...

This story was originally published by The Daily Yonder. Chris Nelson teaches preschool in rural Vermont, just a few miles from the Canadian border, but not in the school or child care center most ...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Lakethia Clark has spent most of her adult life taking care of children, first at a church day care and later in a child care center. She loves children, but after 15 years, she was ...

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Community-based intermediary organizations can help states quickly deliver the American Rescue Plan’s $24 billion child care relief and stabilization fund to child care providers. Flora Montes-Moreno ...

Despite claims to the contrary, the Build Back Better Act envisions an important role for faith-based child care providers. The sun sets over the U.S. Capitol dome on November 14, 2019. (Getty/Bill ...

Carmen Reaves has worked in child care for 25 years. Parents drop their children off at her home in the Overbrook Park neighborhood in west Philadelphia knowing that they are in the hands of an ...

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