child care

(Editor’s note: The Bradford Era will highlight those Bradford Area High School students completing cooperative education placements with local busine...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry released a set of public policy recommendations to help address the state’s childcare a...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Gov. Josh Shapiro spent part of his afternoon on Thursday talking fiscal policy with children — with surprising success. Speaking w...

HARRISBURG — Nearly five years after the COVID-19 pandemic depressed daycare availability, costs and labor participation are on the rise. This, accord...

HARRISBURG — A range of pressures motivated lawmakers to act on social programs and legislation to ease the burdens on families in 2024. The state int...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — A historic child care crisis is leaving thousands of Pennsylvania kids without access to critical early learning programs. And, acc...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The high cost of caring for children and the elderly has forced women out of the workforce, devastated family finances and left prof...

DuBOIS — Many newborns in the Maternal and Child Center at Penn Highlands DuBois are breastfed; however, you may be surprised to learn that not all of...

NEW YORK (TNS) — At first glance, the policy sounds absurd, especially to many Americans: In Sweden, grandparents are now eligible for government subs...

OLEAN, N.Y. — The YMCA of the Twin Tiers and SUNY Jamestown Community College are partnering to offer child care on JCC’s Cattaraugus County Campus in...

Local chambers of commerce from across Pennsylvania, including Bradford, submitted a letter to state lawmakers urging them to address the commonwealth...

(TNS) — We have a child care crisis in the United States. And as a child care education provider, I know how to fix it: Put families first. The U.S. B...

SMETHPORT — Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of McKean County is seeking community members willing to advocate for abused and neglected childr...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — A bill that would give tax credits to employers for helping employees with child care expenses passed in the House with bipartisan ...

If you have a child in a day care program, congratulations are in order. You were lucky that you were able to get them enrolled in one, given how long...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — There are a variety of circumstances that may motivate a family to pull up stakes and move to another state — be it out of necessit...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — For Renee Betters, child care is out of reach. The 27-year-old mother of three, with another on the way, lost work hours when the p...

ERIE (TNS) — An additional $30 million in state funding for early childhood education in 2021-22 will provide early learning programs for an additiona...

Between our two families, we are raising 11 children. Under the American Families Plan, we could start collecting up to $33,600 per year in child paym...

Joe Biden has a New Deal for America’s kids. He wants to spend more than $225 billion on child care for infants and toddlers, and $200 billion for fre...