The Child Care and Development Fund sends money to states to help make child care more affordable for low-income families.

If you’re a parent, you want your child to be healthy. You’ll do whatever it takes to get your child the care he or she needs. To do that, maybe you sign up for your employer’s insurance plan, or use ...

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 ...

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 ...

Counties from Alameda to Santa Clara are increasingly using voter-approved taxes to stabilize funding for services once ...

The field of pediatric nursing encompasses a broad spectrum of care that goes beyond physical health to incorporate the emotional, psychological, and developmental needs of children. Contemporary ...

New data show that child care expenses amount to 35 percent of low-income families’ earnings. 3- and 4-year-olds play a color game at an early education and care agency in Massachusetts, April 2017.

Both families and their employers feel the burden. Miami-Dade’s economy loses nearly $1 billion annually because of workers’ ...