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San Mateo County Board of Supervisors Approves $10 M Investment in Two Child Care Pilots: One-Stop Navigation Portal and Tri-Share Partnering with County, Employers and Parents
3+ hour, 14+ min ago (250+ words) VIDEOItem #13 starts at 3: 38: 00 PRESS RELEASE" The San Mateo Board of Supervisors yesterday unanimouslyapproved a resolution, sponsored by Supervisors Jackie Speier and Lisa Gauthier, dedicating $10 million in funding for two child care pilots. The first pilot is a one-stop child care…...
Ontario should focus more on creating child-care spaces than
3+ hour, 18+ min ago (796+ words) TORONTO -- As Ontario awaits a promised infusion of money from the federal government for the national child-care program, one prominent expert is arguing that the province should focus more on new spaces than getting to the $10-a-day target. Federal Jobs…...
District of Muskoka and partners expand child care and family supports in rural Muskoka
10+ hour, 3+ min ago (292+ words) The District of Muskoka and its partners have expanded access to licensed child care and family supports in rural and remote communities across the region. According to officials, thanks to the partnerships, residents in Glen Orchard, Honey Harbour, Mac Tier,…...
Boomer Asked Why A Co-Worker Couldn't Use His Parents For Childcare, Then Admitted He Wouldn't Babysit Full-Time Either
2+ hour, 22+ min ago (714+ words) Modern childcare has become a major source of stress for working parents. One thing that has become increasingly apparent in recent years is the major conflicts and disagreements between generations, particularly between Boomers and younger generations. One woman shared in…...
Hudson commissioners call on HCST to reverse closure of Bela Babies Daycare
5+ hour, 57+ min ago (1192+ words) The Hudson County Board of Commissioners called on the schools of technology to rethink their closure of the childcare center known as Bela Babies Daycare amid austerity measures meant to help close the vocational school district's over $5 million budget deficit....
Report: Wisconsin families are being priced out of regulated child care
10+ hour, 10+ min ago (162+ words) Get Our Email Newsletter The companies, people and issues shaping business in Madison and the Capital Region. The 2026 Child Care Market Survey released Thursday by the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families has bad news: child care costs are rising…...
Udell statement on state child care cuts
4+ hour, 10+ min ago (237+ words) After June 2026, the Wisconsin Child Care Bridge Payments program will end due to lack of continued funding from the State Legislature. This program was a smaller continuation of the Child Care Counts program, which itself was cut in half in…...
Candidate White discusses child care
2+ hour, 54+ min ago (699+ words) With the end of Child Care Counts and Bridge payments coming soon, both child care providers and the families they serve will be feeling major after effects " mostly the rise in weekly cost. The government subsidies, which made a huge…...
Anchorage Assembly passes childcare regulations to align city with state standards
3+ hour, 10+ min ago (486+ words) Childcare business operators say code changes passed by the Anchorage Assembly will ease the regulatory burden and help keep them open. The Assembly this week unanimously approved a slate of changes that removed city requirements that went beyond state standards…...
Our economy runs on invisible care labor
8+ hour, 9+ min ago (245+ words) When care workers go unseen, the care they perform can seem to happen as if by magic." In a new brief, Roosevelt Fellow Jessica Calarco illustrates how the childcare, eldercare, and healthcare responsibilities that keep our economy running are pushed…...