This is the 15th blog in our series on the Early Care and Education (ECE) Implementation Working Group. For more information ...

In 41 states, plus DC, the average annual price of child care for an infant in a center exceeded in-state university tuition by 0.8% to over 100%, the Child Care Aware of America report found.

While the five-year increase in child care prices from 2020 to 2024 was 29%, overall prices – with inflation – rose by 22%, the latest analysis from Child Care Aware of America found.

FILE – Delaney Griffin, center, plays with toddlers at the child care center where she works, March 13, 2024, in Lexington, Ky. (AP Photo/Dylan Lovan, File) ...

States received $24 billion to help child care providers boost wages, buy masks and air purifiers and train staff, plus an extra $15 billion for child care assistance scholarships. That money ...

Many parents need child care scholarships to work. ... the plan for a new Spurs arena and entertainment district in downtown San ... according to the advocacy group Child Care Aware of America.

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposed executive budget leaves funding flat at $1.8 billion – with more than half that funding going to families in the five boroughs.

Seven percent is considered affordable by a 2019 study from Child Care Aware of America. What Reynolds’ proposal does ... So the Iowa House Democrats have a plan to address these issues. ...

As part of the Child Care for Washington campaign, a coalition of more than a dozen organizations and child care providers plan to rally in Olympia on Jan. 22 to call on lawmakers to focus on ...

Reporting Highlights. Child Care Gap: About 70% of rural Illinoisans live in a child care desert, forcing tough choices on parents: Some drive 100 miles a day or more to find care, others leave ...