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Child care deserts dot the state, and the industry is under stress. Advocates hope recent legislative efforts can provide some relief.

Charles Pearce currently works for the state of Massachusetts and before he worked on Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign.

Three lives have been saved by AED/CPR training by Oakland County since 2016.

Missouri lawmakers are pushing bi-partisan legislation that would expand child care tax credits to address the state's child care crisis.

Charles Pearce is the only one of the three who has agreed to be publicly identified as a candidate for the job.

Republicans and Democrats agree: access to child care is one of the biggest issues affecting the workforce.

(Jefferson City) -- While Missouris legislative session has just begun, child-care tax credits are at top of mind with a bipartisan House bill.

Gov. Mike Parson discussed a new budget plan for child care subsidies in the future during his State of the State address, but local child care leaders say while it

Child well-being in New Mexico appears to be slowly improving with a marked decline in child poverty. Data from New Mexico Voices for Children found child poverty in the state is lower than it was a decade ago - having dropped from 29-percent in 2012 to 24-percent in 2022 - keeping with a national downward trend. Report author Emily Wildau, senior research and policy analyst for New Mexico Voices for Children, said the improvement is due to new state policies and the pandemic-related expansio...

Tennessees "State of the Child" 2023 report shows some progress, but also highlights ongoing areas of concern. From the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth, the report examines kids health and mental health, education, family economics, child care and the states child-welfare and youth-justice data. Kylie Graves, director of policy and legislative affairs for the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth, said a key finding is that, among children of all age groups, t...