Many American families could soon get some much-needed help with the unaffordable cost of child care, thanks to a new proposal from the Biden administration. On Tuesday, the White House proposed new actions that would lower the cost of child care and strengthen the...
Iowa has a well-documented problem with child care, particularly the availability of care and the cost of it—leading to impacts on Iowa’s workforce.
President Joe Biden on Thursday released his budget plan, which would raise taxes on the very rich and corporations in order to strengthen Medicare, invest in education and childcare, and lower drug prices—all while cutting $3 trillion from the federal deficit over...
In the midst of running her first Iowa Senate campaign, Deb VanderGaast had another big life change to deal with: Closing Tipton Adaptive Daycare, her disability-friendly daycare of 17 years. VanderGaast, a 54-year-old Tipton resident, talked about the ways she'd...
Child care centers in Iowa may soon be able to increase the number of children each worker cares for under a controversial bill passed by the Iowa Senate on Monday. Senate File 2268 would increase child care center staffing ratios, allowing providers to increase the...
Iowa child care providers are speaking out against a new proposal that they say could decrease the quality of care, cause more teachers to quit, and possibly even harm children. House Study Bill 511 would increase the number of children each child care worker could be...
Josie Farley, a young mom who works as a para-educator at Sioux City Schools, likely wouldn't be able to work without child care. "The amount of daycare, how much it costs for daycare ... I would have no money to live after paying daycare [if I didn't work]," she...
When state Rep. Tracy Ehlert opened her at-home child care center to accommodate families impacted by the pandemic, she expected a wave of children needing somewhere to go now that schools are closed. What Ehlert and other child care providers have experienced in...
When state Rep. Tracy Ehlert opened her at-home child care center to accommodate families impacted by the pandemic, she expected a wave of children needing somewhere to go now that schools are closed. What Ehlert and other child care providers have experienced in...
Guest post from Tiffany Welch of the Save The Children Action Network organization. My husband and I moved to Iowa from the West Coast in April, 2007. Moving to Iowa was a wonderful decision for many reasons, and I have especially loved participating in Iowa...
