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Changing Child Care
Despite efforts to make domestic work more egalitarian in the household, women continue to bear the burden of providing care for children. Some researchers attribute declining maternal workforce participation to rising child care costs. On the labor side, more than 90 percent of child care workers are women.
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'We are always excluded': Kids with undocumented parents were supposed to get the child tax credit. Many still haven’t.
Families that include undocumented immigrants are reporting not receiving the child tax credit, even after the law was changed to make them eligible for the first time.
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Moms spent the equivalent of a full-time job on child care last year — while working at the same time
Data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on how Americans split their time last year shows moms of young kids spent about eight hours a day on child care while spending six hours on average working.
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The push for paid family leave had stalled in America. Then men bought in.
A wave of dads pushing for paid family leave policies has taken the issue from a non-starter to one that could potentially become national policy.
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Mental health support in preschool may help lower sky-high expulsion rates
Kids in child care are expelled at three times the rate of older kids. Mental health consultants could help lower the rate — and stabilize the industry.
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As child tax credit payments reach families, moms see a road out of poverty
Mothers told The 19th that the new monthly payments will help them preserve their basic human dignity.
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How safe is summer camp? Depends on their COVID-19 precautions
Directors talk about a difficult year of planning and how vaccines, early testing and quarantine helped some of them safely lift mask restrictions altogether.
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Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on the fight to pass care infrastructure: “It has to happen.”
Gina Raimondo came to the Biden administration in part to pass policies that support working women. In an exclusive interview with The 19th, Raimondo discusses the work she’s doing to make good on that promise.
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Minnesota offers conditional release so that incarcerated mothers can be with their newborns
In a country that typically separates incarcerated people from their newborns, the eight states with prison nurseries seemed groundbreaking. Minnesota introduced an entirely new solution.
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Summer camps haven't fully recovered. That could hurt working moms.
Without a full return of summer programs this year, working moms face months of uncertainty that could further splinter their relationship with the workforce.
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This policy could cut child poverty in half — if it reaches those who need it most
The historic expansion of the child tax credit this year could slash child poverty in half, but only if the poorest families can access it. Reaching them is a massive task the country has never taken on.