The COVID-19 crisis has been hard on a lot of small businesses and particularly so for child-care providers, many of which were on shaky financial ground to start with. A large number have closed ...

Gomez had seen this world up close: first as a full-time caregiver for her own two children, and then through her sister-in-law’s home-based program. The experience taught her something important: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On this edition of Tiempo, we discuss the importance of family-owned, home-based day care businesses in the Latino community. Over ...

Home-based child care is too often misunderstood and undervalued. It’s not babysitting — it’s early childhood education. Home-based providers are trained professionals, licensed small business owners ...

At 5:15 a.m., while most of Albuquerque is still asleep, María locks the door of her home. Her 2-year-old son, bundled against the cold and still half-asleep, rides across town to Rosa’s house, a ...

In the last half of 2025, Gertrudis Espinal watched as, one by one, children left the child care program she runs out of her home in the Bronx. The city had run out of voucher money that her families ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A new national analysis suggests that for most American families, child ...

Child Care Providers United — the union that represents about 60,000 family child care providers in California — has reached a tentative deal with the state after its contract expired July 1. Under ...