Tag: Child Care

JD Vance.

Vance just invited a socialist idea into the Republican tent

Carlos L. Valdes · September 10, 2026 7:00 am

A silhouette of a family holding hands (two parents and their child in the middle) stands before a purple-pink hued U.S. Capitol Building in this graphic.

Community and Family

Expand the child tax credit, don’t reinvent welfare

Daniel Di Martino · September 10, 2026 6:00 am

A young family with their newborn baby boy in the hospital.

Beltway Confidential

The Republican war on marriage

Conn Carroll · September 9, 2026 11:33 am

President Donald Trump listens during a meeting about military families, in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Aug. 3, 2026, in Washington.

‘Socialistic expansion’ or pro-family? GOP splits over Trump’s plan to pay stay-at-home-parents

Mabinty Quarshie · September 8, 2026 5:50 pm

Julia Sargent, 2, of Brattleboro, Vt., waves an American flag as she's carried by her mother during the Fourth of July parade in Brattleboro, Vt., on Saturday, July 4, 2026. (Kristopher Radder/The Brattleboro Reformer via AP)

Trump’s new stay-at-home-parent plan misses the mark

Patrick T. Brown · September 8, 2026 6:00 am

Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks while gesturing with his finger pointing up.

Mamdanism falters in New York

Guy Benson · August 31, 2026 6:00 pm

A student searching through magnetic letters

Trump’s Head Start reform could serve 236,000 more children — without spending a dime

Edward Timmons · August 17, 2026 10:00 am

A person jogs past single family homes.

American families haven’t abandoned the American dream. Washington has

Judy Pino · August 12, 2026 11:00 am

Students help put away school supplies in a classroom.

The Trump administration handed Democrats a new way to win the affordability argument. They aren’t taking advantage

Mabinty Quarshie · August 12, 2026 6:00 am

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz watch as President Donald Trump speaks.

Washington is failing Head Start. We’re empowering parents instead

Alex Adams · August 6, 2026 6:00 am

grandparents family home society

Community and Family

Home is where the grandparents are

Timothy P. Carney · August 2, 2026 6:45 am

In this Sept. 14, 2017, photo, Hortencia Hansen helps a child go to sleep during bedtime at the McCarran International Child Development Center, a 24-hour daycare in Las Vegas. The FEC is being urged by lawyers for Hillary Rodham Clinton to let campaigns pay for the daycare of kids of candidates.

Fairness and Justice

The Minnesota daycare fraud scandal just got bigger

Jon Miltimore · July 15, 2026 6:00 am