Parents Are Drowning in Child Care Costs—and It’s Breaking Their Mental Health

A new Care.com report shows that parents are still feeling the squeeze of child care, and it's having a devastating effect on ...
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Improving the Health and Wellbeing of Children and Youth through Health Care System Transformation

Despite great advances in medicine and developmental science, pediatric health care has not evolved to address many of the current critical challenges to child and adolescent health. There is growing ...
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Disparities in Housing, Health Care, Child Care, and Economic Security Affect Babies for Life

Social determinants of health, such as access to secure housing, family employment and economic stability, education, and child care, must be the focus of federal policies to support infant and ...
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Families locked out of child care subsidies suffer while on waitlists

Millions of low-income kids across the country are eligible for child care subsidies yet can’t access them because of extensive waitlists and underfunded programs. A new Brookings study measures the ...

Lawmakers grapple with child care costs amid budget deficit

As California struggles with a projected $18 billion deficit and federal cuts to state-run programs, child care advocates ...