The Downtown Children's Center in St. Louis. (Photo by Rebecca Rivas/Missouri Independent.) Child care stock image. (Photo by Rebecca Rivas/Missouri Independent/States Newsroom.) It seems little will ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -Gov. Mike DeWine signed the state’s two-year, $60 billion budget, which includes a new $10 million child care cost-sharing initiative. DeWine signed the budget bill at 11:15 p.m.

The 2025-27 budget comes with some funds for child care, but it brings in policy changes providers have criticized. One provider says she ended up with a $15,000 pay cut because she had to raise rates ...

Democratic lawmakers are circulating a draft bill to extend the soon-to-end state child care support program and fund it with $480 million that was stripped from the 2025-27 state budget. The proposed ...

The city of Erie projects a 32% property tax increase over several years to address structural deficits. A reader urges transparent discussions with taxpayers. An advocate argues the new state budget ...

Students in the two to three-year-old classroom at the Community School for People Under Six in Carrboro, North Carolina. For the first time in years, going back to the onset of the pandemic, North ...

Governor Josh Stein signed a law this month to ease child care regulations in an attempt to address the state's shortage of available slots for children at licensed child care providers. Advocates say ...

I regularly hear from Delaware County businesses that they are struggling to hire and keep employees because working parents can’t find convenient, affordable child care. And parents seeking child ...

This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. When Payton Kinnison found out she ...