Child Care

Beltway Confidential

Washington, DC, now requires child-care workers to get college degrees, hurting families and workers

Shoshana Weissmann · March 31, 2017 11:00 pm

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is pursuing that goal with a package of reforms to public assistance in the state budget, changes meant to move people from government programs to work. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)

Scott Walker: Welfare reformer?

Joseph Lawler · March 20, 2017 4:01 am

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi charged that President Trump's proposed budget for 2018 proves that he doesn't care about families and children. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Pelosi: Trump budget ‘does not value the future of children’

Pete Kasperowicz · March 16, 2017 12:29 pm

Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court disagreed with a ruling in favor of an officer who arrested and sent to juvenile detention a 13 year-old boy for disrupting a gym class with burping. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Beltway Confidential

Read Gorsuch’s hilarious dissent in child burping case

Philip Klein · February 1, 2017 2:44 am

Pope Francis baptizes a baby inside the Sistine Chapel, at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017. The pontiff baptized 28 babies. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP)

Washington Secrets

Feds: $233,610 to raise one child, not including college

Paul Bedard · January 9, 2017 4:55 pm

Assistance is on the way to incarcerated parents, due to an executive order by President Obama. (iStock Photo)

Obama to help incarcerated parents reduce child-support payments

Kelly Cohen · December 21, 2016 8:26 pm

President-elect Trump's daughter, Ivanka, is lobbying Congress ahead of her father's inauguration next month to start working on reforms to childcare policies. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Ivanka Trump calling lawmakers, urging action on childcare policy

Anna Giaritelli · December 15, 2016 10:31 pm

Several U.S. cities, including major metropolitan centers like Philadelphia and Detroit, are following Finland's lead and pursuing baby box programs in an effort to reduce baby deaths.

Cities look to cardboard boxes to save babies

Robert King · December 12, 2016 5:01 am

Lurie Children's Hospital is the latest in a growing list of top Illinois hospitals that will now cost Obamacare customers much more to access, now that all four marketplace insurers covering the hospital in-network for 2016 are dropping it from their provider networks next year. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Obamacare customers lose coverage for top Chicago children’s hospital

Paige Winfield Cunningham · December 1, 2016 7:52 pm

Beltway Confidential

Minimum wage hikes raising cost of child care

Jason Russell · November 14, 2016 5:21 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is expected to propose a doubling of the child tax credit Tuesday. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Clinton wants to double up the child tax credit

Joseph Lawler · October 11, 2016 12:24 pm

WATCH: New Trump ad aims to make up lost ground with women

WATCH: New Trump ad aims to make up lost ground with women

Gabby Morrongiello · October 4, 2016 7:15 pm