Child care expenses top the cost of rent in dozens of U.S. cities, analysis finds. See where.

In some metro areas, child care expenses amount to more than double what families spend on rent, LendingTree found.
The Economist

One of the poorest states in America introduces free child care

Universal free child care is a popular policy on the American left these days. Zohran Mamdani, New York’s Democratic ...
NPR

Kentucky had an outside-the-box idea to fix child care worker shortages. It's working

With most of the federal government's pandemic relief money for child care now spent, it's up to states to step in with new ideas to solve the many problems plaguing the sector. A year ago, Kentucky ...