Children can use their imaginations to shop at a grocery store, eat at a restaurant, care for animals at a veterinary clinic ...

In 2024, five child care facilities closed in Iredell County, resulting in a loss of 120 spaces for children, but it doesn’t ...

Experts in the child care field agree more spaces are needed, but quantifying that number in the three counties is difficult.

As inflation soared over the last two years, child care providers across the board — whether they have students in Care 4 Kids or not — struggled to cover their costs.

Subsidizing day care wouldn’t help families who struggle to afford child care but who don’t enroll kids in day care, said Bolar, 35, who also works for the Independent Women’s Forum.

Ohio is amid a child care shortage, even with the number of children in the population shrinking. As of Nov. 2022, 80% of child care providers reported staff shortages, according to an Action for ...

The child care workforce in Massachusetts is now 12% smaller than it was before the pandemic. Skip to main content. ... How child care can build kids' brains, one interaction at a time; ...

The cost of raising a child varies by state, by as much as $439,000. Raising kids has always been costly, but inflation and regional price differences have made it even harder for families to keep ...