Since the pandemic began, thousands of child care locations have closed, exacerbating an already acute shortage. But health care worker Jada Carter was lucky. Her two children went to Hospitots, one ...

Some early childhood advocates are arguing for tighter regulations on investor-driven firms that own child care providers. Currently about one in 10 child care centers are owned by private equity ...

Last June, years of organizing in Vermont paid off when the state’s House and Senate passed landmark legislation—overriding a governor’s earlier veto—that invests $125 million a year into its ...

By far the largest expense for child care providers is wages. The work is labor-intensive, with strict limits set by state governments on the number of children each worker can care for. Pay is the ...

More than three million children could lose child care as pandemic-era funding ends. Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our ...

I had a fantasy that after the child care disaster of the past couple of years, there might be a more permanent, federal-level change in financial support for the sector. It did feel, for a little ...