The year-to-year increase of child care costs is creating a tough situation for many families. Even owners of family child care centers and daycares are feeling the strain, because everything from ...

A new poll shows most Americans see child care costs as a major issue, and majorities support the federal government offering free or low-cost day care and requiring employers to provide paid ...

A new child care center in Colfax aims to expand access and create jobs without focusing on profit.

The Dubuque-based company’s new child care center sits within blocks of Cottingham & Butler’s downtown facilities, where Dennie started taking her 3-year-old and 1-year-old kids this week.

The small but mighty federal grant helps low-income parents pay for child care while they finish college.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio Senate is heading into budget negotiations having rejected a House proposal that would allot $10 million for the state to help parents and employers pay for child care.

Anchorage voters passed Proposition 14 in 2023, allowing the city to distribute taxes collected from marijuana sales to local child care and early development programs.

Working Texas families seeking access to quality child care could receive more support under new laws recently passed by state lawmakers. The most significant development for child care was Senate ...

Some states are seeing a spike in child care programs — but experts worry it’s not enough to outrun rising child care costs.

San Diego boasts a first-in-the-nation child care facility with extended hours for the children of law enforcement officers.

A Defense Department pilot program is opening up more than 600 additional child care spaces in three new child care centers for military families in Norfolk, Virginia Beach and the National ...

Child care workers could soon find it easier to get support for their own children under a bill that’s headed to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk after gaining approval by the Texas Legislature.