A new report reveals that child care costs are now rising at twice the rate of inflation, highlighting a problem that child care costs pose for many parents. The company KPMG, which provides audit, ...

Readers respond to a guest essay on the incoming mayor’s universal child care plan. Also: A gift that never grows old.

Melissa Colagrosso and her husband have struggled to make a profit during the nearly three decades they’ve owned A Place To Grow Children’s Center in West Virginia. “We borrowed a lot of money. We ...

The cost of child care has risen so high in recent years that some parents can't afford to work. As of September, the average household spent more than $700 a month on child care, up 32% from 2019, ...

Senators Jim Justice (R-WV) and Mark Warner (D-VA) introduced bipartisan legislation today to address the nationwide child ...

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Mr. Musk has ambitions to remake education, but his latest effort to open an elementary school in Texas appears to have ...