Child Care Aware of America

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Our nation's leading voice for child care. Follow us on Twitter: @ChildCareAware.

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United States, Minnesota, Saint Paul

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1990

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Sep 30, 2026	From Mars to TOPGUN: WINGS 2026 Puts Six Bold Child Care Solutions in the National Spotlight	TOOTRiS Attendees surround Retired TOPGUN Pilot Jim "Guido" DiMatteo NASA Engineer, and Mars landing pioneer Tom Rivellini speaks on about "Making the Impossible Possible." Retired TOPGUN Captain Jim "Guido" Di...
Apr 22, 2026	More kids than ever are attending state-funded preschool, with California’s surge leading the way	Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MORIAH BALINGIT, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of 4-year-olds attending state-funded preschools reached record highs last school year, driven by states embracing universal acc...
Dec 11, 2025	Why single-income households are ‘a bygone era,’ according to experts	The traditional American family doesn’t look the way it did a generation ago, when there was more likely to be one breadwinner. In two-parent households today, both spouses often work outside the home, by choice and necessity. Over the year...
Jul 10, 2025	Most US adults say child care costs are a ‘major problem,’ a new poll finds	“Everyone kind of agrees that it’s a problem that we need to address,” said Sarah Rittling, executive director of the First Five Years Fund advocacy organization. “By having this issue out there, it really is driving a lot of bipartisan con...
Nov 30, 2024	Budget: Parents facing 20 per cent childcare fee hike after NIC raid
Oct 4, 2024	National Politics \| Child care burst into the national spotlight at the Vance-Walz debate. Here’s why	But this diagnosis of the child care market as a simple supply-side problem conflicts with how child care experts see it. “It reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of the child care problem because it’s a broken market,” said Kathryn Anne ...
Jun 25, 2024	Evidence Shows That Home Visits Support Children and Families. Here’s What to Know.	While her daughter naps, Bridget Collins spends an hour reviewing and role-playing activities with her home visitor, Amanda Pedlar, in the front room of her house in San Antonio, Texas. This week, the pair starts by discussing 3-year-old Br...
Feb 25, 2024	Meet the DIPS parents: Double Income, Public School. They've got it better than the POLKs, or Parents of Little Kids.	Economy Meet the DIPS parents: Double Income, Public School. They've got it better than the POLKs, or Parents of Little Kids. Katie Notopoulos 2024-02-25T09:51:01Z Share icon An curved arrow pointing right. Share Facebook Icon The lett...
Feb 21, 2024	Parents who want to buy a house this year are pretty much screwed	Real Estate Parents who want to buy a house this year are pretty much screwed Alcynna Lloyd 2024-02-21T03:00:55Z Share icon An curved arrow pointing right. Share Facebook Icon The letter F. Facebook Email icon An envelope. It indicates the ...
Jun 20, 2023	At $10,000 per year, the cost of childcare is 'a crisis,' and it's set to get worse in September	The American Rescue Plan Act included funding for childcare that will end in September. Halfpoint Images/Getty Redeem now Our experts answer readers' investing questions and write unbiased product reviews (here's how we assess inv...
Jun 3, 2023	Childcare is about to get even more expensive at the end of September unless Congress acts	Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders says that millions of families will be at risk of losing quality childcare if Congress doesn't act. AP Photo/Susan Walsh Sign up for notifications from Insider! Stay up to date with what you want to know. Su...
Nov 4, 2022	November 4, 2022 – TWC Continues Efforts to Increase Availability of Child Care to Military Families	Date: November 4, 2022 Media Contact: Angela Woellner Phone: 512-463-8556 Partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense will assist military families in finding quality, affordable child care AUSTIN – Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) is p...
May 20, 2022	CCAMPIS: Investing in the Futures of Student Parents in Higher Education	By: Michelle Asha Cooper, Ph.D., Acting Assistant Secretary, Office of Postsecondary Education The COVID-19 pandemic proved to all of us just how important access to childcare and early childhood education is not only for children, but for ...
Feb 9, 2022	16,000 childcare providers shut down in the pandemic. It’s a really big deal	Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you. When thousands of childcare centers and day cares reopened after the COVID-19 lockdowns lifted in 2020, it...
Aug 23, 2021	Is ‘Big Day Care’ the solution to America’s childcare woes—or is it risky to mix profits and toddlers?	Subscribe to Fortune Daily to get essential business stories straight to your inbox each morning. Kate Mendolia’s all-too-common childcare problems started long before the pandemic. Mendolia, a senior sales manager for a multinational manuf...
Jul 22, 2021	FACT SHEET: How the Build Back Better Plan Will Create a Better Future for Young Americans	Although there has been a strong economic recovery under President Biden, young adults have now lived through two historic economic downturns. In 2008, many young workers without a college degree lost their jobs. In 2020, at the height of t...
May 24, 2021	Nearly 10 million children could get free or reduced-cost child care under new proposed legislation	Proposed federal legislation from Democrats could provide nearly 10 million children from lower and middle-class families with free or reduced-cost child care, according to new research from the Center for American Progress. Sen. Patty Murr...
May 9, 2021	You know what mothers really want for Mothers’ Day? A work and school schedule that lines up	A mother is working while her daughter plays next to her on an iPad. Getty Images We pamper moms on Mother’s Day, but massages and gifts can’t make up for how society is stacked against mothers. Millions of parents are constantly stressing ...
May 21, 2018	Hawaii has shortfall of 30,000 licensed child care slots, study finds	STAR-ADVERTISER FILE Lead teacher Chanel Venzon read to her class of 3- to 4-year-olds at the Early Education Center of Seagull Schools. Nearly half of Hawaii’s children under the age of six lack access to quality, affordable child care, ac...
	Parents spend an average of $8,355 per child to secure year-round child care	Families across the U.S. spend an average of $8,355 a year on child care for each kid, which can hamper parents' employment opportunities and impact household budgets. Parents, on average, spend a little over $750 per child per month d...
	This lesser-known tax credit may offer working families a bigger write-off this year	The American Rescue Plan temporarily boosted the child and dependent care tax credit, another write-off for working families. The enhanced credit for 2021 allows eligible parents to claim up to 50% of $8,000 in childcare expenses for a maxi...
	Latinas lose $1.1 million over their careers due to the pay gap—here’s what needs to change	Latinas, on average, are earning $0.57 for every dollar paid to White, non-Hispanic men, according to the National Women’s Law Center. Latina Equal Pay Day, which this year falls on Oct. 21, marks the day to which Latinas must work — an add...
	A third of US workers make less than $15 an hour, and they're struggling to make ends meet	10'000 Hours/Getty Images Over 50 million US workers make less than $15 per hour, according to a new Oxfam America report. Report author Kaitlyn Henderson said that pay "is just not livable," especially with high US inflation...
	How the cost of monthly utilities, car insurance and child care is soaring	More On: inflation Fact-checkers ignore Tlaib, the West needs US leadership and other commentary Biden admits prices ‘too high’ but blames sellers for 18% inflation Team Biden’s Thanksgiving gaslighting on the economy Holiday spending at we...
	Over a year after child-care centers reopened, families are still struggling	Over a year after daycares, preschools and child-care centers started reopening, U.S. parents and providers are still struggling to find a new normal. For Seattle-based Patty Liu, that means continuing her job hunt. Liu, a 38-year-old mothe...

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Child Care Aware of America was founded in 1990.

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Parsers VC has collected 26 articles mentioning Child Care Aware of America, among them “From Mars to TOPGUN: WINGS 2026 Puts Six Bold Child Care Solutions in the National Spotlight” (Sep 30, 2026) and “More kids than ever are attending state-funded preschool, with California’s surge leading the way” (Apr 22, 2026).

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