child care

Advocates say low wages have led to chronic staff shortages and have made it difficult for parents to find care for their youngest children.

A lack of licensed child care is an issue that keeps many families mired in poverty in many areas of New York. The state now has $70 million in grants to help people start child care programs, especially in areas considered child care deserts.

Universal child care has been a lofty ambition for a handful of lawmakers in New York for the past few years, but new legislation introduced Wednesday could be the first step toward realizing that goal.

Child care providers in New York will soon be able to receive subsidy payments from their local social services agency through direct deposit, rather than by check, which is expected to cut out delays for those funds to be disbursed and collected.

In the pandemic, child care has gotten the attention of policymakers like never before, and billions of dollars in emergency funds have stabilized the industry. Biden wants more.

Lieutenant Gov. Kathy Hochul, and State Sen. Rachel May visited a Syracuse child care center Tuesday to thank workers for staying on the job during the…

State officials are revising new recommendations that required children as young as two years old to wear masks in a child care setting. In a joint…

A new database from U.N. Women and UNDP looks at how 206 countries and territories are responding to women's needs during the pandemic. And the results are mixed.

New York’s business leaders are among those warning that the state’s child care system is broken and on the verge of collapse, and they are calling for…