Maya Jackson holds her 19-month-old daughter Zarah at her office in Durham. She's been bringing her daughter to work with her for about a year. On a weekday afternoon at her office in Durham, Maya ...

This week, we’re bringing you stories about what it costs to raise a child in 2025, and how families are making it work. Child care in America is broken. Working parents with young children are ...

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Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, has proposed no-cost, universal child care, helping to reignite a national conversation. By Sydney Ember Universal child care has long ...

Child care costs have been a hot topic in the 2024 presidential race. Here are key facts about the issue, based on data from the federal government and Pew Research Center surveys. How we did this Pew ...

With a new real-time data dashboard, state leaders in Iowa hope to revolutionize the search for child care. The new technology is coming at a time when parents in the state have expressed that a lack ...

Across the rich world, parents of young children face a problem. In America, one of many countries with few subsidies, a household with two working parents and two young children can spend as much on ...

LOOKING AT A PRICE TAG IN THE MILLIONS. I HAVE BECOME A STAY AT HOME MOM, DUE TO THE CHILDCARE STUFF. IT WAS A TOUGH CALL, MADE NEARLY TWO YEARS AGO FOR GRACE JONES TO LEAVE THE WORKFORCE AS SHE ...

Child care has grown so expensive that full-time care now costs more than rent in 16 of the nation’s 100 largest cities, according to a new report. LendingTree, the personal finance site, compared the ...