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As Families Fight for Housing and Child Care, Help Is on the Way
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...
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Over 1 in 4 Child-Care Providers Nationwide Still Remain Closed
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.
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Good News for Parents: Covid Relief Bill Allows Bigger Cash Rollovers for Dependent Care
The latest Covid relief bill removes the limit on dependent care FSA rollovers in 2021 and 2022.
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Congress Proposes $10 Billion in Relief for the Child-Care Industry, But Advocates Say It's Only a ‘Down Payment'
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.
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Still Have Money in Your Flex Spending Account? Here's How You Can Spend It Down
Understanding your FSA is important. Here’s what you need to know and what unexpected items are eligible.
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Your Safety Net Is Broken
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...
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9.8 Million Working Mothers in the U.S. Are Suffering From Burnout
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.
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With More Childcare and Domestic Work, the Pandemic Poses a ‘Real Danger' to Women's Progress, UN Finds
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.
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Child Care Centers Have ‘No Heightened Risk' of Spreading Coronavirus at Facilities: Study
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.
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Can Your Employer Fire You For Taking Care of Your Kids on Company Time?
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.
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Parents Hoping to Get Back to Work Face a Child Care Crisis
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
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State Offers Child Care Help, Providers Concerned With New Guidelines
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.
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California Governor Seeks Overhaul of Child Care
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 —…
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Sanders Would Use Wealth Tax for Universal Child Care, Pre-K
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…
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Oh, Baby! 3 Steps to Prepare Your Finances for Your New Arrival
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...