Child Care Providers Deserve Thanks

Posted in: Quality, New York

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.


Child Care Must Be On State's Agenda

Posted in: Quality, New York

 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.


17,000 Child Care Providers Joining Union

Posted in: Child Care Workforce, New York

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.


Military Families Get Child Care Help in Spending Bill

Posted in: Texas, North Carolina, Kentucky, Washington, New York

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.


Fewer families get child-care subsidies in Monroe County

Posted in: Subsidy Programs, New York

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.


State Panel Studies Child Care Needs

Posted in: Subsidy Programs, New York

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.


Despite a Growing Need, Opening a Child Care Center Isn't Easy

Posted in: New York

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.


Child Care Workers in New York City Vote to Unionize

Posted in: Child Care Workforce, New York

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.


Clinton, DeLauro to aid child-care workers

Posted in: Connecticut, Child Care Workforce, New York, Presidential Elections

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.


Labor unions support Clinton child care proposal

Posted in: CCDBG/TANF, Child Care Workforce, Connecticut, New York, Presidential Elections

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.