“Fewer families with multiple paychecks are making child care payments, especially in lower income households,” Bowley said. “So that kind of suggests to us that one parent, and frankly it's often a ...

As many as 70,000 child care centers are at risk of closing as funds expire. Millions of families across the country are bracing for the worst as the United States approaches a so-called "child care ...

The federally funded Head Start provides free preschool and child care for low-income families, and is particularly important ...

The Center for American Progress has developed a data dashboard that allows users to explore national- and state-level data trends on a range of child care and early learning topics, including access ...

A new grant program announced by Gov. Kim Reynolds would provide preschools and child care centers with $300,000 over three years to offer all-day care for 4-year-olds. Reynolds also proposed a new ...

An assistant teacher at an Educare center works with children in an infant classroom. A new study of Tulsa Educare found children who enroll as infants or toddlers perform better academically at the ...