Colorado voters have shown they support investing in early education. Legislators must make teacher compensation a greater priority in the coming sessions.
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Spouses of deployed military say they’re struggling with the costs of child care, groceries, housing.
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Welsh nurseries have been instructed to report incidents of toddlers engaging in "racist" behaviour to the police.
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An ex-Minnesota state trooper and former investigator in the Office of Inspector General for Minnesota's Department of Human Services testified this week that state officials tried to get him to delete findings from a child care fraud report and later tried to shut down his department after "members of our unit were harassed and bullied by DHS officials."
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Arindrajit Dube brilliantly dissects how wages really are set—but overlooks the particular hurdles that care workers face.
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The child care crisis, and what Colorado can do to address it, will be discussed at Colorado SunFest 2026
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Desde buscar opciones, hasta navegar listas de espera y revisar reportes disciplinarios, aquí están todos los consejos y aprendizajes para entender el sistema de cuidado infantil.
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Maintaining the momentum of Zohran Mamdani’s historically successful election campaign has meant doing the little things right.
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From searching for options, to maneuvering through waitlists, to looking up discipline records, here are all the tips and advice we’ve learned to navigate the child care system
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Nearly 14,000 children are waiting for government-subsidized spots, and for some that means their parents can’t afford to go to work
The city, which does not have a paid family leave policy, established the program to help new parents return to work without sacrificing bonding with their new babies.
Tyler has spent the last decade remaking its parks and sidewalks to allure families. At the same time, a constellation of groups are helping parents take care of their families.
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The provider will be on the ground floor of the Dinkins Municipal Building, and is another step on the road to a free, universal program citywide.
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An investigation ordered by Gov. Greg Abbott found that less than half a percent of federal money spent on child care scholarships in Texas was considered “improper.”
Hundreds of child care providers, parents and child advocates rallied in the Missouri Capitol Wednesday, a day after the House signed off on $51.5 million in cuts to the state’s child care subsidy program. The proposed budget, which needs another roll call vote in the House before heading to the Senate, would also derail plans […]
Legislative spring break is over, and Missouri lawmakers return to the Capitol on Monday with a packed agenda and a May 15 deadline to adjourn. The second half of the session begins with a tighter budget picture, unresolved fights over taxes and public benefits, and a Senate that has already shown it can consume time […]
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Understaffing has become an epidemic in American workplaces of all kinds.
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Chris Van Hollen and Cory Booker argue that middle-class households are paying too much in federal income taxes.
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Every child who starts at Lemay Child and Family Center in St. Louis County receives a developmental screening during their first month of attendance. Based on these screenings, kids can receive speech or occupational therapy at the center, and staff can connect families with community support like help sourcing healthy food. “The economy right now […]
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Child care providers are fighting headwinds on Colorado’s rural Eastern Plains, with staff in short supply — but a new center is attracting parents from as far away as western Kansas.
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In Lake County, there are just 10 licensed child care spots for toddlers and none for infants, so unlicensed homes are the only options
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Streamlining systems to improve access for family and finding ways to reduce barriers are a start to helping Colorado families
Most memorable about this week's longest, basest, game-show SOTU, a toxic, lying, us-and-them hate fest: The rowdy multitude of responses from a populace "defying the lie that we are powerless." Bigly upstaging a goalie's Medal of Freedom was "a marathon of truth-telling," from a cogent Dem response to the Portland Frogs leading a restive, joyful, shaggy defense of "this thing we call…
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Even before the universal policy, New Mexico had much more generous child care assistance than Colorado
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The state’s child care system was barely staying afloat even before the latest upheaval in federal support
The Air Force’s senior enlisted leader told lawmakers that the service is working on 17 new on-base child care facilities to reduce a space shortfall and clear a backlog of Airmen’s children waiting for slots.
The post CMSAF: Air Force Working on 17 New Child Care Centers appeared first on Air & Space Forces Magazine.
A bill focused on making child care more affordable through tax credits was debated Tuesday by the Missouri House Committee of Economic Development. Introduced by state Rep. Brenda Shields, a Republican from St. Joseph, the bill seeks to make child care more accessible for employees in Missouri, thereby creating a reliable workforce for businesses as […]
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$300 million will continue to flow to Colorado's child care and safety net programs, per a preliminary injunction issued Friday
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