Child Care

NBC Bay Area’s digital investigative series NO MAN’S LAND exposes a broken system that denies single fathers basic services. During the 10-month investigation, the Investigative Unit tracked the agencies and resources that help single fathers and struggling parents keep their families together.  A growing number of low-income single fathers are often denied basic services. “Why is it that I...

More than six months after a majority of stay-at-home orders lapsed in states across the U.S., the child-care industry has yet to fully recover.

The latest Covid relief bill removes the limit on dependent care FSA rollovers in 2021 and 2022.

Lawmakers agreed to a $900 billion Covid-19 relief package that provides $10 billion for the child-care industry, but advocates say it isn’t enough long term. 

Understanding your FSA is important. Here’s what you need to know and what unexpected items are eligible.

Among the many harsh truths about American society exposed by the coronavirus pandemic is this one: Our social safety net is broken. NBCLX storyteller Cody Broadway looks at how the ripple effect of the broken safety net can be seen in things like an increase in crowdfunding campaigns to cover lost wages and health expenses and a growing strain on...

Juggling child-care challenges with work responsibilities takes a toll. Roughly 9.8 million working mothers in the U.S. are suffering from workplace burnout.

Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, women have been bearing the brunt of extra childcare duties and unpaid domestic work, a study by the UN has found. 

Parents of young children may breathe a little easier and be more comfortable dropping their kids off at child care centers, after a new report found there was “no heightened risk” of the coronavirus spread at the facilities.

Kids will be kids at the worst time… right when you’re in the middle of a huge video conference with your boss. But can you really be fired for managing your children while working from home? Attorney Mandy Price discusses what your rights are as a work-from-home parent.

The coronavirus pandemic has created a staggering child care crisis that threatens to undermine the tentative reopening of the U.S. economy, forcing many parents to choose between work and looking after their kids

California is helping connect parents with hundreds of pop-up child care facilities with the intent to make daycare more accessible for essential workers, but providers are wondering how they can explain the new guidelines to toddlers.

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to consolidate the state’s confusing array of child care programs that are run by multiple state agencies to make getting the services easier for for low-income parents of young kids. But the first-term Democratic governor’s proposal — which would spend up to $10 million a year to create a new Department of Early Childhood Development —…

Bernie Sanders has joined fellow progressive Elizabeth Warren in proposing that a “wealth tax” can fiance government-funded child care from infancy through age 3 for every American family, then provide universal pre-kindergarten programs after that. Fresh off his win in Nevada, the Vermont senator called the nation’s child care and early education “an international embarrassment” while unveiling a plan Monday…

If you think bringing a new human into the world is daunting, wait until you see what he or she will do to your budget. It will cost a middle-income married couple an average of $233,610 to raise a child from birth through age 17, according to 2015 data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In fact, your child is costing...