Katie Dukes, EdNC’s early childhood policy analyst, greets students at Mission Grammar School-Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Boston. Liz Bell/EducationNC As the pandemic-era federal funding that propped up child care runs out — and the hope for Build Back Better becomes a memory — states are finding their own ways to cope with the
A social media account features smiley toddlers, while also offering positive lessons about child development. Is it possible that on X — the social media site formerly known as Twitter and sometimes called “the hell site” — there remains a font of delight and edification, a place to witness laughter and even love? The answer,
The U.S. Senate has a crucial opportunity to expand the highly successful Child Tax Credit (CTC) by adopting the bipartisan tax bill that recently passed the U.S. House of Representatives with overwhelming support. The CTC expansion in the tax bill would provide much needed resources for 16 million U.S. children in working families with low
Poverty statistics are essential for determining how prevalent poverty is in the United States and documenting whose basic needs are going unmet. This data also helps to target resources and assess the effectiveness of anti-poverty programs. A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recommends updating the methodology used by the
