Trump’s Deregulation of Head Start Would Lead to Bigger Class Sizes, Lower Quality Trump’s Deregulation of Head Start Would Lead to Bigger Class Sizes, Lower Quality
The administration has now made public a proposed rule to eliminate critical standards for services in the free preschool program.
Aug 7, 2026 / Bryce Covert
Hey, Don’t Forget: Women Are the Working Class in America Hey, Don’t Forget: Women Are the Working Class in America
There are more women in the labor force, yet the care economy is still underfunded and undervalued.
Jun 16, 2026 / Gwen Frisbie-Fulton
Childcare Providers Around the Country Are Being Targeted by Vigilante Surveillance Childcare Providers Around the Country Are Being Targeted by Vigilante Surveillance
In response to bogus allegations of fraud in Minnesota, strangers are filming them, knocking on their doors, demanding to be let in. It’s scaring parents and costing providers.
Feb 5, 2026 / Bryce Covert
The Real Welfare Fraud Scandal The Real Welfare Fraud Scandal
If the Trump administration were truly concerned with fraud in social services spending, it wouldn’t start with childcare, and it wouldn’t start with Minnesota.
Jan 14, 2026 / Bryce Covert
Lefty Groups Making It Possible for Families to Do Politics Lefty Groups Making It Possible for Families to Do Politics
From Comrades with Kids to Red Sprouts, millennials find new ways of support.
Oct 12, 2023 / Raina Lipsitz
America’s Short-Lived Safety Net Has Almost Fully Unraveled America’s Short-Lived Safety Net Has Almost Fully Unraveled
The American Rescue Plan created unprecedented programs protecting parents and young children, renters, and childcare providers. Now they are almost entirely gone.
Sep 15, 2023 / Bryce Covert for The Nation
Finally, the Biden Administration Will Offer Some Relief for Childcare Costs Finally, the Biden Administration Will Offer Some Relief for Childcare Costs
The rule announced today is a far more limited action than what Biden had been seeking at the start of his administration, but it will make a significant difference for the people ...
Jul 11, 2023 / Bryce Covert
You Don’t Need a Script to Speak to Your Child You Don’t Need a Script to Speak to Your Child
"Gentle parenting" aims to protect children from harm, but in whittling acceptable language down to a handful of phrases, the movement not only distrusts parents, but also disallow...
May 9, 2023 / Kate Shannon Jenkins
The Childcare Crisis Is Getting Worse The Childcare Crisis Is Getting Worse
When child care is unaffordable and unavailable, people can’t get to work—it’s mainly mothers who are held back.
Mar 23, 2023 / Bryce Covert
The Economic Response to the Pandemic Proved We Can Have Nice Things The Economic Response to the Pandemic Proved We Can Have Nice Things
Biden is ending the Covid public health emergency, and with it will go some of the positive outcomes of the terrible pandemic.
Feb 7, 2023 / David M. Perry