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News Articles: child care

Boniece Gillis, an assistant teacher at Educare DC in Washington, D.C., says the wage bump she receives through the Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund has kept her on the job.

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How D.C. tackled a child care crunch through a tax hike on the rich

In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.

December 13, 2024
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  • Andrea Hsu
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Proposals to rein in child care costs in Georgia gain early support from Senate leaders

Georgia Senate leaders have started to outline specifics of their plans to reduce child care costs when they meet back at the Capitol next month.

December 13, 2024
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  • Ross Williams
Voters in Travis County, Texas, St. Paul, Minn., and Sonoma County, Calif., considered whether to approve tax hikes to help fund child care.

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  • Business

Here's where voters approved a tax hike to help pay for child care

Voters approved tax hikes to help fund child care for low-income families in the Austin, Texas, and Sonoma County, Calif. A similar measure in St. Paul, Minn., failed.

November 06, 2024
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  • Andrea Hsu
Georgia State Sen. Kim Jackson holds her son as she takes part in a reproductive health town hall meeting at Neighborhood Church Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024, in Atlanta.

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  • News

Candidates can use campaign funds for child care in most states, but few do

A growing number of states are allowing candidates for local and state office to use their campaign dollars to pay for child care expenses. Parents of young children say the practice gives them the time and flexibility to run for office, which often requires long and obscure hours of work.

September 12, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Sachin Shivaram, CEO of Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry in Manitowoc, Wis., realized during the pandemic how much his employees were struggling with child care. Figuring out how to help them has been challenging.

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  • Business

This boss vowed to help his workers with child care. It hasn't been easy

Child care continues to vex working parents. In Wisconsin, the CEO of the Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry has been trying — and struggling — to make a difference.

September 04, 2024
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  • Andrea Hsu
Elvia Elena Nunez and her grandson Esteban spent several months this spring in the Kith and Kin program.

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  • Business

Paid or unpaid, child care is vital to the economy. This program recognizes that

In Arizona, a program called Kith and Kin teaches mothers, grandmothers, aunts, friends and neighbors who watch other people's children the skills they need to provide high quality care.

July 08, 2024
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  • Andrea Hsu
Lakethia Clark stands in her son's bedroom in her home in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Clark will soon open her own home-based child care business.

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  • Business

To help the economy, an Alabama county is betting on home-based child care

A project in Alabama seeks to drastically grow the number of home-based child care options. It could help the state's workforce, especially during nontraditional hours.

June 21, 2024
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  • Andrea Hsu
On her way to work at the Mazda Toyota Manufacturing plant in northern Alabama, D'Koya Mathis takes her 2-year-old daughter Zharia to Ms. Pat's Child Care & Development Center.

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  • Business

An Alabama manufacturer shows how to retain working moms: child care

Child care has long been seen as a problem for mothers to solve. Now employers see it's their issue too. In Alabama, a carmaker is working with a tech company to help employees find and pay for care.

June 10, 2024
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  • Andrea Hsu
about 30 black people in purple shirts hold signs with a list of demands for better work conditions in front of the Georgia State Capitol.

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Georgia child care workers join national calls for more funding

About 30 child care workers gathered near the state Capitol on Monday to demand more state funding. The rally was part of the National Day Without Childcare.

May 14, 2024
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  • Amanda Andrews
With pandemic relief money for child care winding down, states are looking for ways to ensure the sector survives so parents can go to work.

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  • Business

Kentucky had an outside-the-box idea to fix child care worker shortages. It's working

To woo workers, Kentucky made child care free for child care workers. It's been an effective way to keep child care centers open and staffed.

October 07, 2023
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  • Andrea Hsu
Melissa Colagrosso founded A Place to Grow child care center in Oak Hill, W.Va., 28 years ago. In the pandemic, federal relief dollars allowed her to raise wages and give bonuses, offer paid sick leave and make repairs and improvements at the center.

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  • Business

With pandemic relief money gone, child care centers face difficult cuts

Now that federal emergency funding for child care has expired, daycares face difficult choices about how to operate with less.

October 05, 2023
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  • Andrea Hsu
Sen. Warnock speaking at the National Head Start Association Conference.

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  • Politics

Warnock introduces legislation to improve child care workforce at National Head Start Conference

Georgia's U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock introduced new legislation on Monday to boost the child care workforce by increasing access to early Head Start programs nationwide.

September 22, 2023
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  • Ambria Burton
Deandrea Rahming was apprehensive about going back to work after more than a decade out of the job market, but in the wake of the pandemic she found employers eager to hire.

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  • Economy

Women are returning to the job market in droves, just when the U.S. needs them most

The pandemic was hard on working women, but they've come roaring back into the labor force. The share of working-age women who have jobs or want one hit an all-time high in June.

July 07, 2023
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  • Scott Horsley
Patricia Moran watches as children play at her child care facility in San Jose, Calif.

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  • Children's Health

Georgia’s child care workers are among the lowest paid in the nation

While the cost of care burdens American families like in no other wealthy country, caregivers here are paid worse than 98% of professions, leading to chronic workforce shortages and high turnover. That's according to an annual report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation published this week..    

June 14, 2023
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  • Ellen Eldridge
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1950s: Couple in kitchen. Women in opposite-sex marriages may be contributing more to their families' income, but they're also still shouldering more of the workload at home, according to a new report.

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  • Business

Women are earning more money. But they're still picking up a heavier load at home

A new Pew Research Center report finds that in opposite-sex marriages in the U.S., women's financial contributions have grown, but they're still doing a larger share of housework and caregiving.

April 14, 2023
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  • Andrea Hsu
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