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A new program in Northeast Indiana is trying to ease the burden of childcare

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By Victoria Lim for WorkingNation.Broadcast version by Joe Ulery for Indiana News Service reporting for the WorkingNation-Public News Service Collaboration A new program in Northeast Indiana is trying to ease the burden of childcare. It’s not just an issue for Noble County’s 47,000 rural residents. As WorkingNation has previously reported, the effect from the pandemic lingers, especially for women. ...

For Pennsylvanians on the hunt for employment opportunities, the Keystone State offers a favorable landscape. The states jobless rate stayed at a record low 3.4% in April, better than the national rate of 3.9%. Maisum Murtaza, research associate at the Keystone Research Center, said the positive trend has been ongoing for months, with the rate hovering between 3.2% and 3.4% over the past year. ...

More Hoosier families will soon have a new lifeline as Noble County expands its Tri-Share Program to help cover child-care costs.

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A recent survey is highlighting the need for more affordable and accessible child care in West Michigan.

I recently had a conversation with a peer who said she had been asked if child care was better now than it was 20 years ago. I had a pretty

TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly’s task force on early childhood development outlined Monday a plan for improving coordination of the education and care of pre-kindergarten kids by consolidating services scattered among four state entities into a newly created agency or within an existing department. The Early Childhood Transition Task Force authorized by the first executive […]