Twice a week, I join the ranks of legions of parents and grandparents who entrust the smallest members of their families to the care of others, people working in day care centers or in private homes who teach, protect, nurture, guide and comfort the children we love.
While former Gov. Eliot Spitzer focused on expanding pre-kindergarten and children's health coverage, he had not yet committed the state to creating a comprehensive child care policy.
About 17,000 home-based child care providers will join the Civil Service Employees Association as a result of a lopsided pro-union vote, state officials said Friday.
The $516 billion sweeping government spending bill before Congress provides $129 million for child care centers at 16 military installations, including locations where there have been heavy deployments of troops to Iraq and Afghanistan.
When Nickol Lowry applied for a government subsidy to pay for her son's child care several months ago, she learned that her own pursuit of a college education while working would be held against her.
The chair of the State Assembly's Committee on Labor says New York State needs to work more funding for child care into its next budget.
When Graci Moore, a designer for Ralph Lauren who was living in France, moved back to New York for work in March, one of her most pronounced culture shocks, she said, came from the long waits to enroll her 2-and-a-half-year-old son, Zachary Viger, in youth programs. Day care was one of the worst.
In the largest successful organizing drive in New York City in half a century, 28,000 child care providers will join the city’s teachers’ union as the result of an overwhelmingly pro-union vote, state officials said yesterday.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro has teamed with New York Sen. Hillary Clinton in proposing a $200 million annual fund to boost the pay, benefits and training of child-care workers.
Two large labor unions joined Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut at a press conference today in support of a proposal to add $200 million annually to a federal block grants program for child care.