A proposed $450 billion investment in child care and preschool could fundamentally change the nation’s approach to early learning — but getting the right money to the right people is complicated.
The senator talks about how home-based disability care helped her family and why it is important for seniors and people with disabilities to have a voice.
Home care workers represent 53 percent of the workforce supporting seniors and people with disabilities, but the majority of them are not impacted by Biden’s vaccine mandates.
Disability and marriage have an especially fraught relationship in American history.
Thousands of facilities say they are struggling to keep their doors open. The 19th reached out to experts to discuss what mass closures would mean for the aging and their loved ones.
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.
19th readers who have received the COVID-19 vaccine while pregnant took to Twitter to share their experiences with us.
It’s yet another way the nation’s patchwork approach on family policy reinforces and perpetuates inequities.
In an interview with The 19th, Pelosi voiced confidence that the next budget reconciliation bill would include unprecedented commitments to child care, home care, paid family leave and early childhood education.
A two-person nonprofit offers support for incarcerated parents and their newborns, mediating with family and addressing financial concerns that are often overlooked.