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Mamdani’s Child Care Czar on NYC’s First-of-it’s-Kind, Universal 2-K Rollout
8+ hour, 51+ min ago (1731+ words) In New York City, a family needs to make over $330,000 a year " the equivalent of 10 minimum wage jobs "to afford the average cost of child care for a single 2-year-old. During his successful bid for mayor, Zohran Mamdani argued these…...
A Child Care Paradox: Families on Waitlists, Centers Underenrolled
2+ week, 8+ hour ago (290+ words) While these percentages aren't massive, they are meaningful when applied across the board to the 13 million American families with young children. These data also track with a trend of mothers of young children dropping out of the workforce as they…...
What if States Made Child Care a Constitutional Right?
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (132+ words) Did you use this article in your work? We'd love to hear how The 74's reporting is helping educators, researchers, and policymakers. Tell us how Elliot Haspel is a senior fellow at the think tank Capita and author of "Raising…...
Colorado Parents Can Soon Recover Child Care Waitlist and Application Fees
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (324+ words) Did you use this article in your work? We'd love to hear how The 74's reporting is helping educators, researchers, and policymakers. Tell us how Articles by Ann Schimke Colorado parents will soon be able to get partial refunds on…...
2025 Research Roundup: 3 Pressing Themes Shaping Early Care and Education
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (477+ words) Did you use this article in your work? We'd love to hear how The 74's reporting is helping educators, researchers, and policymakers. Tell us how Kendra Hurley is a journalist and researcher focused on cities, families, policy and economic issues....
New Mexico Charts a Path for Universal Child Care
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (430+ words) Did you use this article in your work? We'd love to hear how The 74's reporting is helping educators, researchers, and policymakers. Tell us how Michelle Kang is chief executive officer of the National Association for the Education of Young…...
Even in a Nation With Robust Family Policies, Stay-at-Home Parents Struggle
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (334+ words) Rebecca Gale is a writer with the Better Life Lab at New America where she covers child care, and is also the author of It Doesn't Have to Be This Hard, a newsletter on caregiving writing and reporting. The collective-minded…...
Families and Providers Deserve More Notice When Child Care Programs Close
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (251+ words) Elliot Haspel is a senior fellow at the think tank Capita and the author of "Crawling Behind: America's Childcare Crisis and How to Fix It." Haspel also writes a Substack,The Family Frontier. The reasons for rapid child care closures…...