Child Care

Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., said Friday that Republicans are not budging in new bipartisan talks on how to fund the Children's Health Insurance Program. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)

Top Democrat Frank Pallone: GOP not budging in talks on child insurance program

Robert King · October 13, 2017 8:16 pm

First lady Melania Trump plans to visit Lily's Place, an infant recovery center in Huntington, W.Va., that treats babies who have been exposed to addictive substances while their mother was pregnant. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Melania Trump to visit drug treatment center for babies in West Virginia

Caitlin Yilek · October 9, 2017 6:07 pm

More recently, J.D. Vance's bestselling Hillbilly Elegy -- hailed as an exposition of white working-class social crises -- revolved around the relationship between Vance and his grandparents, who raised him as his mother struggled with drug addiction.

Marc Veasey proposes tax credit for grandparents raising their grandchildren

Joel Gehrke · October 9, 2017 4:01 am

On late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel's show earlier in the summer, Sen. Bill Cassidy discussed healthcare. But Cassidy over-promised Kimmel that any health plan earning his support would have to provide "the child born with a congenital heart disease be able to get everything she or he would need in that first year of life even if they go over a certain amount." (AP Photo/File)

Beltway Confidential

Both Jimmy Kimmel and Bill Cassidy have erred in their ongoing debate

Hadley Heath Manning · September 22, 2017 3:07 pm

Rep. Bobby Scott and other Democratic lawmakers introduced child care legislation Thursday that would provide federal subsidies to low-income families, a proposal that will compete with the Trump White House's efforts to enact similar policies. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrats introduce early childcare bill

Sean Higgins · September 14, 2017 7:55 pm

Thanks to a new regulation from Washington D.C.'s government requiring that, by 2020, all childcare workers must have at least an associate's degree and center directors must have bachelor's degrees, about half of the city's childcare workers must soon head back to school or lose their jobs. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Beltway Confidential

How a new Washington, D.C. regulation is pushing women to lean out

Carrie Lukas · September 8, 2017 11:03 pm

The idea wasn't part of the joint principles on tax reform that the Trump administration put out and has never had support from House or Senate GOP leadership. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Child tax credits back in Republican tax reform talks

Joseph Lawler · September 1, 2017 4:01 am

First lady Melania Trump is expected to announce the causes she will champion as first lady "in the coming weeks." (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Melania Trump likely to champion causes on ‘well-being of children’

Caitlin Yilek · August 15, 2017 3:04 pm

Ivanka Trump is frustrated with her critics for misunderstanding the power she has to persuade her father into changing his views. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Ivanka Trump wants to lower expectations of what she can accomplish: Report

Caitlin Yilek · July 31, 2017 11:55 am

Charlie Gard, the critically ill British baby at the center of a legal battle, has died. He would have turned 1 next week. (Family of Charlie Gard via AP)

Charlie Gard, critically ill British baby at heart of intense legal battle, dies

Associated Press · July 28, 2017 5:42 pm

The parents of 11-month-old Charlie Gard finally surrendered this week in their fight to assert their rightful control over the little boy's medical care. It's a fight they should have never had to wage, and the outcome is outrageous.

Grim defeat for one child, his parents, and every family

Washington Examiner · July 25, 2017 4:01 am

The parents of critically ill baby Charlie Gard are dropping their legal bid to send him to the United States for experimental treatment. (Jonathan Brady/PA via AP)

Charlie Gard’s parents decide to end legal fight

Associated Press · July 24, 2017 1:47 pm