child care

California has poured billions into childcare and preschool subsidies for low-income families, but extending those benefits to every family would be complicated.

Head Start is a federal childcare program that serves the country’s lowest-income families — those earning less than $33,000 a year for a family of four.

Transitional kindergarten came with an unanticipated downside; it’s making childcare less affordable for many CA families. That can be fixed.

Agencies that put kids in foster homes sought $30 million for insurance, because abuse victims have won multimillion-dollar lawsuits against them.

The governor tripled early childhood funding and expanded TK to all 4-year-olds. But preschools are closing, making infant care harder to find.

In California, almost 40% of the workforce is foreign-born and more than a million parents — immigrant and otherwise — rely on child care providers so they can go to work.

As funding deadlines approach, one Head Start program has closed and three others are about to. More closures are expected in the coming weeks.

A preschool in San Diego focuses on children who've experienced trauma, the "little guys". Mi Escuelita now has a long record of helping kids and families move forward.

Head Start staff and advocates launched a nationwide campaign to save the program, which Trump eliminated in his budget draft.

Child care's expense is linked to a lack of supply, which is linked to a lack of workers, which is linked to low pay and poor benefits in the industry, panelists said.