Child care

Republican gubernatorial candidate Duke Rodriguez talks with a voter in Albuquerque, N.M., Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)

New Mexico judge dismisses a legal challenge to first-in-the-nation universal childcare program

A New Mexico judge has dismissed a challenge over the legality of the state’s fledgling universal childcare program.

U.S. passports are arranged for a photograph in Tigard, Ore., Dec. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

US will revoke passports for parents who owe child support

Children at The Sky's The Limit Family Childcare inspect items to determine if they are alive or dead on Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in Fowlerville, Mich. (Isabel Lohman/Bridge Michigan via AP)

Michigan tests expanding free ‘pre-K for all’ to home child-care providers

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a Nasdaq closing bell ceremony at the Alamo, Thursday, March 5, 2026, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

After Minnesota scandal, Texas reviewed its child care spending. It found little fraud.

Children draw in one of the classrooms at the Children's Promise Centers child care center in Albuquerque, N.M., April 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)

A $50 million push hopes to make child care a top issue in the midterm elections

Timeline of Minnesota fraud investigations

Minnesota has been beset by a series of complex, overlapping fraud investigations that have stretched over several years and involve potentially billions of dollars in wasted federal funding. (AP video by Mark Vancleave)

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Elle Fanning and Michelle Pfeiffer star in new comedy ‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’

Hochul and Mamdani unveil free child care plan in New York City

Tim Walz drops bid for third term as Minnesota governor amid child care program investigation

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Ally Masy-Alhin, paraprofessional, reads to students at Gallimore Elementary School in Canton Township, Mich. on Tuesday, March 3, 2026. Masy-Alhin is pursuing a no-cost path to becoming a lead preschool teacher. (Isabel Lohman/Bridge Michigan via AP)

New Michigan program aims to train, retain more early childhood teachers

Audit finds gaps in Vermont child care oversight pose risks to children, threaten federal dollars

CHhildren drawing after school inside one of the classrooms at the Children's Promise Centers child care center in Albuquerque, N.M., April 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

New Mexico’s promise of free child care comes with a fiscal escape hatch

California state governor Gavin Newsom speaks after signing a clean energy agreement with British Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband, at the Foreign Office in London, Monday Feb. 16, 2026. (Yui Mok/PA via AP)

Gov. Newsom expanded free preschool. Now private daycares say they can’t afford to stay open

Children watch television at ABC Learning Center in Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Vancleave, File)

Judge rules Trump administration must keep funding child care subsidies in 5 states for now

Children watch television at ABC Learning Center in Minneapolis, Minn., on Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Vancleave)

Trump administration can’t block child care money for 5 Democratic-led states for now, judge says

FILE = The Health and Human Services seal is seen before the news conference of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the Hubert Humphrey Building Auditorium in Washington, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

What to know as Trump targets child care and social service funding to 5 states led by Democrats

New York Governor Kathy Hochul speaks during a press conference with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

Hochul and Mamdani unveil free child care plan in New York City

FILE = The Health and Human Services seal is seen before the news conference of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the Hubert Humphrey Building Auditorium in Washington, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Trump administration funding threats set child care providers and parents on edge

Children watch television at ABC Learning Center in Minneapolis, Minn., on Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Vancleave)

Trump administration says it’s withholding social safety net money from 5 states over fraud concerns

Amaya Jones is photographed with her children Aubrey and Jalen near their home in Jackson on Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today via AP)

How Mississippi could meet the needs of more than 19,000 families waiting for child care vouchers

People gather for a news conference at the state capitol in St. Paul, Minn., on Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025. (AP Giovanna Dell'Orto)

Minnesota must provide documents to US government in child care fraud probe by next week

State Sen. Michelle Benson reacts at a news conference on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul to a report by the state's legislative auditor on combatting fraud in Minnesota's Child Care Assistance Program. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski,File)

Trump administration says it’s freezing child care funds to Minnesota after series of fraud schemes

Senate group vets ideas for how Mississippi should act on health of women, children and families

Families leave CentroNia at the end of the school day in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump’s crackdown on immigration is taking a toll on child care workers

Cantrell Keyes, director of Agape Christian Academy World, talks about her academy Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2025, in Jackson, Miss. (Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today)

About 16,000 families waiting for child care vouchers after pandemic funds run out

Maria Guzman, left, and Sergio Rocha, parents of young children, comfort each other outside of Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center after federal immigration agents took a daycare teacher Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

Chicago day care worker detained by immigration agents released after community support

Maria Guzman, left, and Sergio Rocha, parents of young children, comfort each other outside of Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center after federal immigration agents took a daycare teacher Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

Chicago day care worker detained by immigration agents at drop-off time for children

Dogs kill 2-year-old boy at a Georgia daycare center

A pilot program is helping West Virginia workers with child care, with employers paying some costs

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham waves during the Democratic National Convention Aug. 20, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

New Mexico is the first state to promise free child care for all families

Police and fire crews assess the damage at First Roots Early Education Academy after a vehicle drove through a window in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. (Sammy Kogan/The Canadian Press via AP)

Child dead, 9 others injured after car crashes into daycare in Canada

Pre-K students at The Learning Lamp Center for Children in Somerset participate in a ceremonial ribbon-cutting to celebrate the completion of its "Child Care Works for Somerset" campaign at the facility on Aberdeen Drive in Somerset County, Pa., May 16, 2024. (Thomas Slusser/The Tribune-Democrat via AP, File)

Most US adults say child care costs are a ‘major problem,’ a new AP-NORC poll finds

A doctor performs an ultrasound scan on a pregnant woman at a hospital in Chicago, Aug. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford, File)

Falling birth rates? US adults are much more worried about childcare costs, AP-NORC survey finds

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers gives the annual State of the State address, Jan. 22, 2025, at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Governor signs budget in early morning to secure Medicaid funds

2 arrested after baby dies at an illegal day care in California, officials say

The Health and Human Services seal is seen before a news conference with Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Washington, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

List of child welfare research grants marked for termination in mistaken HHS email

Florida Rep. Fiona McFarland, R-Sarasota, talks to her 7-month-old daughter Grace Melton as she pushes her stroller down the hall to her state Capitol office, Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Colin Hackley)

Child care in the Capitol: As more women run for office, some are bringing their kids

Delaney Griffin, center, plays with toddlers at the child care center where she works, March 13, 2024, in Lexington, Ky. (AP Photo/Dylan Lovan, File)

Scholarships for child care are drying up. Now families are paying the price

Child care providers say Maine is behind in reimbursement payments. Lawmakers are investigating.

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