In Washington, D.C., where close to 40 percent of child care workers are immigrants, fear has taken hold amid a crime crackdown that has raised ICE presence. Many are missing work, deepening a staffing shortage in the industry.
Nicolle Orozco Forero was detained and eventually deported, along with her husband and two sons. She brings us inside the country's largest family detention center.
The program, which will start in November and is expected to save families $12,000 per child annually, is available to all residents regardless of income.
Women who turned to Etsy to build their small businesses are facing the prospect of closing or downsizing because of tariffs.
Though it survived elimination, Head Start is under threat. Now that they have been directed to ban undocumented children, providers wonder if politics has changed the program forever.
New research found that countries where men do more housework and child care have higher fertility rates.
Trump’s pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggested a pause of the monthly employment reports, the only timely economic measure of how women of color are faring in the economy.
This year, though, it's political as tariffs drive prices up and the Trump administration makes historic cuts to public education funding.
Lesbian and bisexual women are more likely to be low-income, more likely to be parents and more likely to rely on Medicaid. They could fall through the cracks of Trump’s new tax law.
Nicolle Orozco Forero was one of the few immigrant women who provide child care for American children with disabilities. Then she and her seriously ill son were taken into ICE custody.