child care

An ex-Minnesota state trooper and former investigator in the Office of Inspector General for Minnesota’s Department of Human Services testified this week that state officials tried to get him to delete findings from a child care fraud report and later tried to shut down his department after “members of our unit were harassed and bullied by DHS officials.”

Texas Governor Greg Abbott unleashed a directive Monday, ordering state agencies to hunt down and stop any child‑care funding fraud inside Texas’s system. The governor made clear exactly why: the massive, systemic, taxpayer‑draining scandal that exploded in Minnesota under Democrat Governor Tim Walz.

Trump’s HHS announced that it is closing a Biden-era loophole that required states to pay childcare centers before verifying attendance. 

The municipal government of Beijing on Thursday rolled out the latest effort to reverse China’s demographic decline, a 15-step plan to create a more “birth-friendly society.”

An infant was surrendered to Alabama’s first Safe Haven Baby Box, just days after installation, WAFF48 reported on Wednesday.

South Korean pediatricians are exiting the profession as birth rates decline, creating a hospital environment where few children are being born, but there still are not enough doctors to care for them.

Biden’s claim is probably false, as his Senate salary placed him among the country’s elite earners, and his sister helped care for his sons.

An economist’s analysis of President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better bill said it would significantly increase the cost of day care in the guise of making it more affordable. Casey B. Mulligan, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, published his piece on the Committee to Unleash Prosperity’s website.

On Wednesday, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg claimed the child care plan included in President Joe Biden’s so-called “Build Back Better Act” would help solve the ongoing labor crisis.

The multi-trillion dollar price tag on what the Democrats are calling regular and human “infrastructure” bills is in the headlines, but if the legislation passes the change, it will bring will come at a cost to the American way of life.

The Democrats promised the so-called $1 trillion infrastructure bill would be paid for, but the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) analysis of the legislation shows it will increase deficits by $256 billion over the next decade.

The D.C. city council advanced on Tuesday an amendment that would increase the marginal tax rate for residents who earn $250,000 or more.

As public school systems closed and refused to offer consistent and safe schooling to all children over the past year, many “suffered trauma and disconnection that will take years to repair,” according to Lelac Almagor, a fourth-grade public charter school teacher in Washington, D.C. who wrote a lengthy New York Times op-ed on Wednesday.

President Joe Biden will reportedly propose a $200 billion initiative to provide free preschool for five million three- and four-year-old children in a speech to a joint session of Congress Wednesday.

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) has countered President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal, on which Biden said he is ready to negotiate.

Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) teachers and other district staff with young children will be returning to in-person learning with a $500 per month child care subsidy in order to further ensure schools are staffed appropriately, the district said.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) delivered her Democratic National Convention (DNC) address Wednesday from a preschool classroom, with toy block letters arranged into “B-L-M” — short for the credal phrase “Black Lives Matter” — in cubbies in the background.

Joe Biden’s “real estate tax” idea also reflects an idea first proposed by “democratic socialist” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) during the primary.

Families that import women for cheap and customized child care are denouncing President Donald Trump’s temporary curbs on the J-1 visas for au pairs, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The Biden campaign on Tuesday took aim at Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) over his recently released fact sheet, which explains how he would fund his multitrillion-dollar proposals, dismissing it as an “incomplete list” that “doesn’t even begin to fully cover the costs.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) released his plan to give free, full-day child care for every child beginning at infancy and free preschool education to all children starting at age three at a cost of $1.5 trillion over the next ten years.

The event is scheduled to begin at 9:00 a.m. EST.

An analysis of the most kid-friendly cities names Detroit, site of next week’s Democrat debates, the worst city for raising children.

Illinois couple Jennifer and Darin Miller are suing the state’s Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) over a mandate that that homeowners give up their handguns in order to house day care facilities.

Democrats have taken favorably to Ivanka Trump’s two signature issues, namely affordable child care and paid family leave.

Two House Oversight and Government Reform committee leaders sent letters to the acting secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force to remind them that military child care workers are exempt from a federal hiring freeze, and to ask what they are doing to prevent any shutdowns in child care services.

Democratic Vice President Joe Biden wants American women to get back in the workforce to help boost the economy.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign released a new television ad that highlight’s his plan to help relieve the burden of child care costs on American families.

Brunell Donald-Kyei, vice-chair of Diversity Outreach at the National Diversity Coalition for Trump, was a guest on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Matt Boyle and discussed her support of Donald Trump for president.

Donald Trump unveiled his child care plan in Pennsylvania on Tuesday night alongside his daughter Ivanka, who helped conceptualize the policy proposal. “This is a reform of critical value and long overdue,” Ivanka stated as she introduced her father. “My father understands the needs of a modern workforce.”

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump stated of his child care proposal, “I felt this for a long time, but I guess maybe we weren’t in quite the same position we’re in

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” columnist Charles Krauthammer reacted to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s child care proposal by saying, “What he is proposing is to out-Democrats the Democrats.” And “how many Democratic Parties does

The Houston Chronicle notes that “Texas law doesn’t say how old is old enough for kids to be left alone,” but unnamed “authorities” warn that “inadequate supervision puts children at risk.” Yes, and inadequate common sense puts innocent people at risk. I guess you could say the Nanny State is practicing what it preaches, as it frets about leaving its child-citizens inadequately supervised. No wonder helicopter parenting is mandated.

California ranks among the worst states in the nation at providing oversight of child care services, a recent study by the nonprofit Child Care Aware of America (CCAA) revealed.

A Los Angeles Times report released early Wednesday morning reports that many child care facilities in Los Angeles have alarmingly low vaccination rates–some reportedly as low as 51%. The report indicates that private schools have lower vaccination rates than public schools, as wealthier parents opt out of inoculation for communicable diseases like measles.