childcare
By Dana RieckSt. Louis Post-Dispatch ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — The police department here is on track to become just the second in the U.S. to provide its officers with subsidized child care, part of an effort to attract and retain officers — especially women. The St. Louis County Police Department’s goal is to open […]
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON – Lower income households and Black and Latino communities will be hit hard when a confluence of U.S. economic events kick off next week, including a sharp drop in childcare funding, economists, analysts and government officials said. About 12.4%, some 41 million, of the U.S.’s 333 million people live at or […]
Philadelphia families are forced to spend a larger chunk of their pay on childcare than in any other Pennsylvania county, new federal data show, and it’s likely affecting the number of women in the workforce. A new database from the U.S. Dept. of Labor shows the cost of childcare as a proportion of . . […]
For financial support, researcher parents are turning to crowdfunding programmes — some of which target mothers of colour specifically. Credit: Getty As Ava, a postdoctoral researcher at a top-tier university in North Carolina, bounces her three-month-old daughter on her lap during the final days of her family leave, she worries about whether she will be […]
Photo: Prostock-studio (Shutterstock) Three months into my pregnancy with my oldest child, I was laid off. As soon as I had begun sharing the good news that my family was growing, I found myself a casualty of a corporate merger. Without health insurance and a regular paycheck, I rushed out to find another job before […]
The high costs and lack of access to childcare is preventing many thousands of women from returning to the workforce in the United States despite a widespread labor shortage. Childcare systems in America were already facing significant problems in terms of their expense, the low pay for workers, and lack of accessibility for families before […]
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