childcare

Many women have left the workplace under the duress of balancing professional and personal responsibilities, including not only childcare and other caregiving, but in many cases also managing schooling or virtual learning.

These workers, who are often paid very low wages, rarely have the option of working remotely and trying to schedule their paid work around remote learning and other childcare responsibilities.

She never had time to pick up her daughter from the nursery and had to get additional childcare.

With the shortage of face masks in the spring, we moved quickly to produce tens of thousands of masks to meet customers’ needs and to donate to childcare centers open to essential workers around the nation.

It allowed some of those workers to keep working remotely or work part-time when stores reopened, and the company expanded its paid childcare benefits to $15 per hour and $100 per day.

Coming to the center gives her a measure of relief from long days filled with childcare and housework.

In general, even the most generous vouchers cover less than 75 percent of the market price for childcare.

In France, parents pay for their childcare on a sliding scale based on their income—the rest is subsidized by the government.

In 31 states, childcare has a higher price tag than a college education.

The childcare vouchers were slashed or frozen in the economic downturn, leaving many families worse off.