The national early learning child care (ELCC) program is providing economic benefits and opportunities not just for mothers, but their children as well. An image representing early child care and ...

Research from the consulting firm BCG finds that just 12% of all U.S. workers get child care benefits through their employers.Companies that offer it may have a leg up over the competition. Policy ...

Universal child care, in particular, is the sort of transformative goal that could make New York a model for the nation. One in five New York children live in poverty, and giving their caregivers ...

According to a recent Care.com survey of 500 companies, nearly one-third said they might cut child-care benefits if a recession takes hold. ... and propose universal and free child care.

The budget also includes $42 million in legal assistance for migrants, and funds to open 10 more library branches on Sundays.

But after President Richard Nixon vetoed a bipartisan universal child care bill by saying it would “commit the vast moral authority of the national government to the side of communal approaches ...

As a result, parents are looking to their employers for enhanced benefits: Three-fourths of parents believe employers should offset the cost of child care for their employees.; Sixty percent would ...

Menin’s other bill creates a child-care advisory board to study how the city can advance toward universal benefits and what the costs will be in the next five years to establish such a system.

Even in less polarized times – back in the 2000s – universal child care bills were introduced nearly every year, ... Her company offered no child care benefits or parental leave.