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News Articles: day care

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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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
In this photo provided by the New York City Police Department, a trap door leans open over narcotics, including fentanyl, and drug paraphernalia stored in the floor of a day care center, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, in New York.

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Bags of fentanyl found beneath trap floor of day care center where 1-year-old died

New York City police said detectives executed a search warrant on a Bronx apartment when they found the narcotics and other paraphernalia concealed by plywood and tile flooring.

September 21, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
A family of a victim mourns as they bring a blanket and a milk bottle during a ceremony for those killed in the attack on the Young Children's Development Center in the rural town of Uthai Sawan, north eastern Thailand, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022.

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In Thailand, mourning for the children and others slain by an ex-police officer

Relatives grieving staggering loss Friday laid flowers at a day care center in rural northeastern Thailand where a fired police officer killed dozens of people, including children as young as 2.

October 07, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
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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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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  • Andrea Hsu
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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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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  • Andrea Hsu

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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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  • Andrea Hsu

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