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If you're a working parent, you've no doubt felt the burden of managing child care with your job one way or another. A new index report from KPMG, a Big Four accounting firm, shows the reality of the U.S. child care crisis. The report estimates that 1.2 to 1.

Kindergarten “redshirting”—when a parent decides to delay the start of their child’s academic career by a year—was once largely a choice made by higher-income parents of white boys.

For all the campaign arguments about immigration and the United States border, you’d think that we were embarking upon a new situation, something coming, an arriving novelty barely visible over the horizon. And yet, as far as schools are concerned, this is a past tense debate. The U.S.

Day care workers earn less than dog walkers. States are finally realizing that’s got to change. Jacqueline Strickland was tired, but hopeful.

Bankrate estimates that the typical American household averages $14,000 per year for one child.

However, MIECHV regulations for supporting English learners and their families are not as specific as other federal programs. Funding has also stagnated since 2013, and experts estimate that only 140,000 families, about 3 to 5 percent of those eligible, are actually receiving services.

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In Dan Wuori’s upcoming book he argues that America’s early childhood policy has been premised on a harmful myth: “This is the myth of daycare,” he writes, “which — in reality — simply doesn’t exist.

Christina Parker should be able to live comfortably in Mill Valley, California, a leafy suburb north of San Francisco on her six-figure salary working for a real estate developer. Instead she watches her checking account slowly empty all month long until there’s nearly nothing left.

The “care economy” agenda collapsed despite a Democratic trifecta. A divided government is more likely next time. Caregiving policies are having a moment in the 2024 election.