Nonprofit Thrive Birth to Five has launched Child Care Finder, a new online child care locator designed to help families find quality early learning programs for children from birth to age five.  The ...

Child care is expensive — and if you’re paying for care so you can work or look for work, the IRS does offer a meaningful tax break. IRS Form 2441 is how you claim the Child and Dependent Care Credit, ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the city and state will deliver free child care for 2-year-olds at a press conference on Jan. 8, 2026. Andrew Schwartz / SplashNews.com New ...

The lack of affordable child care is creating significant hardships for many families, new research finds, with 1 in 5 households reporting having to cut back on coverage or resort to less desirable ...

New York inched toward socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s lofty promise of universal child care Thursday — as Gov. Kathy Hochul rolled out a multi-billion-dollar plan to vastly expand kids programs. The ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City parents would have access to free child care for their 2-year-olds under a plan unveiled Thursday by Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the first step for the ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani described a complex and expensive expansion of child care in New York City that would add programs for 2-year-olds. By Benjamin Oreskes Eliza Shapiro and ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani made a historic announcement Thursday that puts New York one step closer to providing universal child care for all families. Hochul ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs is cutting thousands of roles, but local VA services in Central Texas are not expected to be impacted. The department is eliminating about 25,000 open and unfilled ...

The Trump administration has said it is freezing child care funds to all states until they provide more verification and administrative data about the programs in a move fueled by a series of fraud ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (U.S. HHS) has clarified that the Trump administration is freezing federal child care funding to all states, with Minnesota as the catalyst. Nearly a year ...

The Trump administration said Tuesday it is freezing federal child-care funding to Minnesota following allegations of yearslong fraud schemes involving the state’s social-services system. “We have ...