How childcare workers in Minnesota are protesting ICE
Since the Trump administration deployed 2,000 immigration officers to Minneapolis a few weeks ago, childcare workers have been on high alert. Immigration officers have shown up at…
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Is Universal Childcare the Democrats’ Winning Issue This Year?
An important component to all of these plans will be raising provider pay and trying to build on the network of experienced programs that already exist, while at the same time covering…
Trump’s Childcare Funding Freezes Are Going to Hit All Kids Hard
“Once they close their doors, there’s no coming back from that,” Lehnoff said. Christina Killion Valdez, the director of a childcare center in Rochester, Minnesota, said in a press…
Why good design remains a luxury for U.S. childcare
Getting a preschool-age child, let alone dozens of them, to wash their hands can be an exhausting chore. At Family Connections preschool in the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco, that…
Report: It takes a $180,000 salary to comfortably afford U.S. childcare
The cost of childcare has been climbing precipitously for the past decade, with some families spending about a quarter of their yearly income—or more—on those expenses. As federal funding…
Childcare worker who abused more than 60 girls jailed for life
A former childcare worker dubbed "one of Australia's worst paedophiles" has been sentenced to life in prison for raping and sexually abusing almost 70 girls. Ashley Paul Griffith, 47,…