[ad_1] In her 44 years at the Keene Day Care Center, Suelaine Poling has seen a lot, including the cost of child care skyrocket. Poling, the center’s executive director, said she’s recently noticed another concerning trend: New workers are going into child care without much, if any, formal training. Keene Day Care Center works with
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[ad_1] <!– SHOW ARTICLE –> Amy Jacobson Executive Director Prairie Action ND Fargo, ND One billion dollars. That is the amount of federal dollars provided to the state of North Dakota through the American Rescue Plan Act for post-pandemic relief. Child care is at the forefront of the lives of working families in North Dakota
[ad_1] The 2019 GOP tax law boosted the tax credit to $2,000 per child under the age of 17 through 2025 and extended it to individuals making $200,000 and married couples filing jointly with $400,000 in income, phasing out at a rate of 5 percent for each dollar of income above the thresholds. As part
[ad_1] UPPER DARBY – U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., made a stop at the Community YMCA of Eastern Delaware County Monday morning to promote the expansion of the monthly Child Tax Credit payments families are presently receiving, as well as his Five Freedoms for American’s Children policy plan. Casey took part in a roundtable discussion
[ad_1] Challenges to Biden bill see rewording A critical piece of US President Joe Biden’s climate agenda, which would replace coal- and gas-fired power plants with wind, solar and nuclear energy, will likely be dropped from the budget bill pending in Congress, the New York Times reported. White House staffers are revising the legislation due
[ad_1] More than a year after the pandemic took his job working in a Maryland warehouse outside Washington and put his family’s plans to buy a home on hold, things are looking up for Warren Copeland. He found another job working a forklift at a different warehouse. Copeland, 59, and his wife closed on their
[ad_1] Biden headed to the Hill to salvage agenda One step forward, one step back. Congress managed to avert a government shutdown, with limited GOP support, yesterday in back-to-back votes. However, besides that critical vote another was supposed to take place in the House on the bipartisan infrastructure bill already passed by the Senate in
[ad_1] “I can’t compete with sign-on bonuses and paying $20 an hour at the amusement park,” said Ms. Mossefin, who provides care for children from infancy through age 12. “Even fast-food places are hiring at $12 to $15 an hour here. I can’t because I can’t raise prices on my parents because we are all
[ad_1] Child Tax Credit extension at risk The enhanced Child Tax Credit has already made its mark on childhood poverty, lifting three million children out of poverty in its first month alone. If the policy were to continue it would improve those kids educational, health and economic outcomes throughout their lives. The changes to the
[ad_1] It’s the morning of the first day of school for Megan Hullinger’s two oldest children. She wakes at 6 to prepare lunches and get her four children dressed. Around 7:30, she packs them all into her car. 11-year-old Tessa, 8-year-old Abby, 3-year-old Nathan, and 1 year old. Gemma, her baby. She drops them each