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The Nordic country's generous social services system now allows parents to transfer a portion of paid leave days to other non-parent caregivers. Swedish grandparents became eligible for paid parental leave [...]

The area around Bolzano has a thick network of family support provided by the government. That means a steady birthrate in a country facing a demographic plunge. In a municipal [...]

A self-described ''mom in tennis shoes,'' now the Senate Appropriations Committee leader, managed to win an increase in child care subsidies in a spending freeze. Senator Patty Murray got inspired [...]

I had a fantasy that after the child care disaster of the past couple of years, there might be a more permanent, federal-level change in financial support for the sector. [...]

Under the proposed rules, any amount of lead dust in floors and window sills would qualify as ''hazardous'' and require abatement. The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed to strengthen requirements [...]

As President Biden prepares to announce his re-election campaign, he is seeking to make progress on a promise that has stalled in his first two years in office. WASHINGTON -- [...]

In return for vast subsidies, the Biden administration is asking the chip industry to make promises about its workers and finances. WASHINGTON -- Semiconductor manufacturers seeking a slice of nearly [...]

In a new bill, Republican senators adopted many of the Democrats' goals, but they remain far apart on elements like how to pay for it. The crisis in child care [...]

A nondiscrimination provision in the $1.85 trillion social policy bill could disqualify some religious organizations, spurring a fight over who can benefit from President Biden's landmark bill. WASHINGTON -- A [...]

The authors of the sprawling legislation believe that even if the new programs are temporary, their benefits will become so popular that Congress will keep them. History shows they are [...]

''No one should have to choose between a job and a paycheck or taking care of themselves and a loved one -- a parent, spouse or child,'' President Biden told [...]

Conservatives beware: If the main elements in Joe Biden's American Family Plan become law, they'll be very hard to repeal. Why? Because they'll deliver huge, indeed transformational benefits to millions. [...]

Long waits and less funding for subsidized child care have stranded parents and threaten to close day care centers. Kahandie Elliot does not give up easily. A mother of four [...]

National pre-K and affordable day care don't have to be a dream. The most revolutionary part of President Biden's agenda so far is his focus on a constituency that doesn't [...]

Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts introduced a universal child care proposal on Tuesday, the latest in a series of ambitious policy ideas from Democratic presidential candidates. Ms. Warren's plan, the [...]

Whoever gets the Democratic nomination, she or he will run in part on proposals to increase government spending. And you know what that will mean: There will be demands that [...]

Summertime throws into relief the mismatch between work and family life. Working parents in middle- and upper-income families have stitched together activities for kids by now. Maybe the 6-year-old is [...]

LAWRENCE, Kan. -- President Obama on Thursday unveiled plans to greatly increase federal assistance to working Americans struggling to afford child care, choosing a Democratic pocket in a solidly Republican [...]

JANUARY 2007 YES on H.R. 2 Supported an increase in the federal minimum wage. YES on H.R. 3 Voted to allow the use of embryonic stem cells for research in […]

More than half the Senate, including many Democrats, called on the majority leader today to schedule a debate on reauthorizing the welfare program created by an innovative 1996 law that […]

The House passed legislation that would increase work requirements for welfare recipients and revise the landmark 1996 law that has moved millions of single mothers from welfare to work. The […]

New York City spends millions of dollars a year paying for child care for welfare recipients without any quality control, safety oversight or basic information about the people being paid […]

State officials are warning that new rules proposed by the Bush Administration would make it much harder to enforce basic safety standards at thousands of child-care centers used by low-income […]

Debate is intensifying here over whether what is good for children, and their working parents, is good for business. The first child care center serving downtown office workers opened last […]

LEAD: FOR years, the state had paid little attention to the most prevalent form of child care: mothers who hire other mothers to take of their children. FOR years, the […]

LEAD: AFTER becoming the first state to adopt a law banning homosexuals as foster or adoptive parents, New Hampshire began to question parents in its child-care program on their sexual […]

LEAD: Seeking to reshape a Federal system they consider out of kilter, the nation's governors today announced a major effort to increase state responsibilities substantially in housing and child care. […]

LEAD: Many teen-age mothers on welfare who lack adequate child care may refuse to sign up for new job and education programs mandated by the landmark 1988 welfare law, state […]

LEAD: A little-noticed change in Federal tax law may curb the widespread but illegal practice of paying child-care providers off the books. At the same time, child-care experts say, it […]