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News Articles: child care

President Biden's ambitious proposals to address the high cost and short supply of child care haven't garnered enough support in Congress, so now his administration has come up with a workaround.

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  • Business

Biden has big ideas for fixing child care. For now a small workaround will have to do

The administration is turning to semiconductors in the hopes of expanding affordable child care.

March 17, 2023
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Lisa Rager knows well the hurdles to obtaining services for foster kids. She and her husband, Wes, have cared for more than 100 foster children and adopted 11 of them, many of whom are pictured. Rager says one child waited more than a year for an appointment to see a specialist doctor.

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  • News

Unmet needs: Critics cite failures in health care for vulnerable foster children

More states are moving to specialized managed-care contracts solely to handle medical and behavioral services for foster kids. But child advocates, foster parents, and even state officials say these and other care arrangements are shortchanging foster kids’ health needs.

January 25, 2023
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By:
  • Andy Miller and
  • Rebecca Grapevine
Georgia state Rep. Dar’shun Kendrick, a Lithonia Democrat, has filed a resolution urging Congress to form a reparations commission.

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  • Politics

First bill of next year’s General Assembly session targets Georgia’s abortion ban  

ATLANTA — The first bill prefiled for the 2023 legislative session takes aim at one of the hottest political topics in Georgia, a law that bans abortions at around six weeks of pregnancy. 

December 01, 2022
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By:
  • Rebecca Grapevine
Louana Joseph and her daughter, Marlie, outside their former apartment complex in southwestern Atlanta. Joseph moved out of the unit because she suspects the gray and brown splotches that were spreading through the apartment were mold. After rents soared during the pandemic, some families were forced to live in substandard housing, which increased their risk for health problems such a s asthma and lead poisoning.

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  • News

Her apartment might have put her son’s health at risk. But ‘I have nowhere else to go’

A nationwide affordable housing crisis has wreaked havoc on the lives of low-income families, like Louana Joseph’s in Atlanta, who are close to the brink. Their struggle to stay a step ahead of homelessness is often invisible.

December 01, 2022
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By:
  • Renuka Rayasam and
  • Fred Clasen-Kelly
Allyson Felix reacts after winning a gold medal in the Women's 4 x 400m Relay Final at the Tokyo Olympic Games in August 2021.

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  • Sports

Allyson Felix launches a child care initiative for athlete moms

Allyson Felix is the most decorated US track and field athlete in history. As she wraps up her last season, she focuses on supporting other athletes moms.

June 21, 2022
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By:
  • Olivia Hampton
Mayor Andre Dickens

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  • News

Atlanta mayor plans to spend $20M to enhance child care

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens wants to spend $20 million to improve and subsidize child care and preschool in the city.

June 06, 2022
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By:
  • Associated Press
According to the State Department, 14 au pair agencies operate in the U.S. These private companies are required to offer the child care workers who contract with them basic health coverage. But the plans often amount to emergency or travel insurance — not the kind of full coverage ACA health plans offer.

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  • Health

The Affordable Care Act Can Help Au Pairs Avoid Medical Debt

Child care workers from outside the U.S. often buy health coverage through an agency. But those policies can have big gaps, critics warn. ACA plans are comprehensive and, with subsidies, can be cheap.

September 20, 2021
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By:
  • Bryce Covert
Latoya Beatty, owner of Little Pandas Learn-N-Play in Martinsburg, W.Va., has had trouble hiring day care teachers. She recently raised her starting wage from $10 an hour to $12.

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  • Business

Daycare Is Costly In The U.S. — So Is Biden's Plan To Fix It

In the pandemic, child care has gotten the attention of policymakers like never before, and billions of dollars in emergency funds have stabilized the industry. Biden wants more.

August 12, 2021
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks during a Senate Finance Committee hearing in Washington on Feb. 24. Warren's latest book is called <em>Persist</em>.

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  • Author Interviews

Elizabeth Warren Stitches The Stories She Says 'Help Us Learn To Persist'

Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she isn't looking to be president. She's looking for change, she tells NPR, which happens when we talk about our stories — from sexual harassment to child care troubles.

May 04, 2021
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By:
  • Rachel Martin
Children in a Georgia daycare

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  • Children's Health

Federal COVID-19 Aid Could Be 'Game Changer' For Hard Hit Georgia Pre-K

Child care workers were vital for allowing other essential workers to stay on the job, but with more Georgia parents working from home, jobless or working fewer hours, demand has not yet returned. Some child care facilities report enrollment at 75% or lower.

April 20, 2021
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By:
  • Ross Williams
The pandemic shuttered day-care centers, after-school programs and camps this year, creating problems for some parents who put aside wages, pre-tax, to pay for those expenses.

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  • Your Money

Use It Or Lose It: Parents Set Wages Aside For Child Care. Now It's At Risk

For many families, 2020 ended up being a year with fewer child-care expenses. Now parents with unspent funds in their dependent-care flexible spending accounts are trying to figure out what to do.

November 19, 2020
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Couples are struggling to redefine their own roles as they look to navigate a pandemic that has upended many aspects of domestic life.

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  • Business

'I Come Up Short Every Day': Couples Under Strain As Pandemic Upends Life At Home

Couples are struggling to redefine their own roles as they look to navigate a pandemic that has upended many aspects of domestic life.

November 12, 2020
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By:
  • Rafael Nam

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  • Business

The American Government Once Offered Widely Affordable Child Care ... 77 Years Ago

Affordable, quality child care was hard to come by even before the pandemic and now even more so. It's not for a lack of ideas about how to fix it. Is this the moment those ideas are taken seriously?

November 01, 2020
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
The obstacles and hardships facing working mothers are not new, but the pandemic has given them more visibility.

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  • Economy

'This Is Too Much': Working Moms Are Reaching The Breaking Point During The Pandemic

The coronavirus did not create the struggles that working mothers face daily. But it has exacerbated them and made them more visible, forcing women of all income levels to make hard choices.

September 29, 2020
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu

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  • Health

NPR Poll: Financial Pain From Coronavirus Pandemic 'Much, Much Worse' Than Expected

In the largest U.S. cities, at least half of all households have seen a serious financial loss such as lost job, wages or savings. Many problems are concentrated in Black and Latino households.

September 11, 2020
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By:
  • Joe Neel
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