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Child Care
It’s Long Past Time for the US to Implement Paid Family and Medical Leave
We must see low-income parents, caregivers and child care providers as human beings with essential needs.
Manchin Helped to Impoverish 4 Million Children When He Killed Child Tax Credit
Working people don't stand a chance in a nation that despises the poor and caters to those with power.
Many Child Care Workers Are Blocked From Student Loan Forgiveness
Child care workers employed by for-profit centers or self-employed are not eligible for the PSLF program.
Mississippians on Medicaid Lose Coverage 60 Days After Birth
Postpartum depression and many birth-related infections often don’t have time to show up before care is cut off.
Child Care Workers and Parents Unite to Demand Livable Wages and Affordable Care
Child care workers and the families they support declared a nationwide “strike” on Monday.
Caregiving Is Work. Parents Deserve Welfare Free From Unpaid Work Requirements.
Caregivers' victories around the world show the real possibility of winning pay for unwaged motherworkers in the U.S.
Biden’s 2023 Budget Could Have Made Child Care Free. Instead, It Boosts Police.
Biden's own quip while introducing his budget says it all: "Show me your budget and I’ll tell you what you value.”
Socialists Take Up Critical Fight for Universal Child Care in the United States
Child care is an ineluctable social need, and has become only more so due to systematic inequality and impoverishment.
Colorado Is on the Verge of Passing Free Pre-K for All
The state is creating a new agency as part of plans to offer nearly universal preschool in 2023.
Research Finds Investment in Permanent Child Tax Credit Would Pay Off 10-Fold
Raising family incomes by $1,000 yearly would cost $97 billion and create $982 billion in benefits, research finds.