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Rising food costs squeeze childcare providers, report finds
1+ hour, 5+ min ago (493+ words) Childcare providers are financially struggling to keep up with escalating food costs, and yet many early education programs are choosing not to participate in a federal nutrition assistance program due to administrative hassles, according to an upcoming report from Boston-based…...
The new nanny state
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (29+ words) The Boston Globe The new nanny state Christopher Weyant is a cartoonist and illustrator. Follow him at @ChristophWeyant. You can see his work at christopherweyant.com...
New study from Harvard offers a solution to the child care crisis: Pay workers more
1+ week, 6+ day ago (807+ words) The results of a new survey by a Harvard professor add to increasing evidence that affordability is the key barrier to expanding access to formal child care in Massachusetts. The professor’s somewhat surprising solution? Pay child care workers more. “Given…...
Why ambitious moms feel like they???re always falling short (and how to stop that)
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1846+ words) Anne Welsh wants to redefine ambition for modern women. In her new book, “Ambitious Mother: From Surviving to Thriving in your Career and at Home,” she challenges the notion that motherhood and ambition, or motherhood and work, are at odds....
We’ve lost our spark, and gained a live-in grandchild
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (559+ words) Q. My wife and I, we’re well past retirement now. Truth be told, we’ve lost a good bit of whatever spark we used to have. Feels like it just ran off somewhere and didn’t bother coming back. Now our granddaughter’s living…...
Newton child care center to close next month, citing declining enrollment and rising costs
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (278+ words) Family ACCESS, a Newton nonprofit that has provided early childhood education and family support services for more than a century, will permanently close next month, citing declining enrollment and rising operating costs. “Because of declining enrollment and increasing costs, the…...
N.H. Executive Council tables $1.2m for childcare program over DEI language
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (398+ words) The New Hampshire Executive Council tabled a $1.2 million extension of an existing contract to bolster the Granite Steps for Quality program and provide more professional development opportunities related to caring for children with special needs. In Wednesday’s meeting, the Executive…...
‘You may be the first someday’: Ocasio-Cortez joins Pressley and Wu in Roxbury to champion more funding in early education
4+ mon, 1+ day ago (698+ words) While visiting an early education center in Roxbury, New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday joined Massachusetts Representative Ayanna Pressley and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu to read a book about ambition to preschool-aged children. “You may be the first someday,…...
In Rhode Island, child care infrastructure is in urgent need of investment
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (227+ words) Child care is essential to Rhode Island’s babies and young children, and to our working families. High quality, affordable child care provides kids with a safe environment for learning, socialization, and exploration. And for working families, child care is a…...
At the Globe’s Working Mothers Summit, economist Emily Oster talks about translating data for better parenting choices
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (373+ words) Brown University economist Emily Oster joined The Boston Globe’s Working Mothers Summit to discuss parenting decisions, navigating the sea of data, and topics she thinks should be more thoroughly researched, from setting screen time boundaries with kids to preventing vaginal…...