More parents are missing work, working part-time or staying out of the labor force altogether for child care reasons than before the pandemic, new research shows, reflecting a steadily worsening ...

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 ...

Through a new audit, child care providers are taking stock of the investments and sacrifices they make to keep child care ...

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Utah prides itself on being a family-friendly state, yet one of our most pressing challenges is providing accessible and affordable child care and flexible workforce arrangements to working parents.

Portsmouth city councilors are looking into whether the city can take steps to address a child care shortage in the community, which they say is also contributing to workforce shortages.

We are disheartened, but we’re not ready to give up yet,” said Genevieve Stokes with Child Care Aware of Washington.