The Downtown Children's Center in St. Louis. (Photo by Rebecca Rivas/Missouri Independent.) Child care stock image. (Photo by Rebecca Rivas/Missouri Independent/States Newsroom.) It seems little will ...

Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s final budget will include $50 million to improve child welfare, including money to centralize the state ...

Children in child care. (Photo by Rebecca Rivas/Missouri Independent) Child care must be a priority in the next Ohio state operating budget, advocates told a legislative committee considering the ...

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Students in the two to three-year-old classroom at the Community School for People Under Six in Carrboro, North Carolina. For the first time in years, going back to the onset of the pandemic, North ...

The budget of the Arkansas Division of Children and Family Services has grown considerably over the past 10 years, as the total operating budget for the division has increased by more than $125 ...

Representative for Georgia's Division of Family and Children Services answers questions on why state agency found itself with ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — It seems little will change about the budget when it comes to child care, after Gov. Mike DeWine’s 67 total vetoes didn’t include changes specifically related to child care provisions ...

This story originally appeared on Spotlight PA. When Carli Viola-Luqa learned in April that her kid’s child care facility planned to permanently close, she panicked. Viola-Luqa, a nurse, and her ...