All of Montana’s 56 counties have fewer day care spots in a licensed facility than the estimated number of kids from households with two working parents, according to state labor department data. On ...

Child care is finally getting widespread attention, but we have yet to answer the essential questions: what is child care and ...

A ballot measure enacted with bipartisan support two years ago tapped a unique funding source — but shows how states can ...

KAYLA LEHMAN, Administrator of Children First Development Center, Inc. Two weeks ago, the Peninsula Pulse reported a short ...

Maine’s health department consistently relicenses child care providers with repeat violations ... In Arundel, another mother ...

Nearly half of the state’s child care providers have raised tuition and a third have lost staff, a new report found.

Centers already were facing financial issues. Missouri’s backlog of payments to child care providers has put some child care centers in St. Louis and families that depend on those subsidies in a ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The skyrocketing cost of childcare is hitting working families harder than ever. A study by financial experts at Lending Tree found that childcare for two children is almost 40% ...

Prenatal exposure to cannabis can negatively impact children’s thinking and behavioral skills, including impulse control, ...

The most terrifying thing,” says Barb Sinclair, “is that I’ve lost my home and my business in the same instant.” Sinclair is one of dozens of licensed, home-based child care providers whose businesses ...

5, child care advocates who won historic state investments in families and providers last session are hoping to build on that momentum: making the state’s child care scholarship program more ...

The Children’s Minister is defending proposing giving “third-party providers” the ability to use force against young people ...