Parents are stumping up thousands of dollars a year for childcare, but preschool workers say they're underpaid and the industry has struggled to expand. Some 58% of working parents with children ...

A dire workforce crisis in a booming U.S. economy is prompting the child care industry to turn to business tactics more closely resembling Wall Street than "Sesame Street." ...

The big economic return for intensive preschool for disadvantaged kids has two implications. First, while many people advocate spending on these kids for reasons of fairness or justice, Heckman ...

In a new report, economists found a 13 percent return on investment from public preschool spending. That's nearly twice the amount they'd previously estimated.

Home learning activities with preschool children ‘could boost economy by £1.2bn’ One in seven three-year-olds in the UK is estimated to be at risk of ‘vulnerable’ early language skills ...

Drawing from a sample of about 3,000 children enrolled in state-run preschool in 11 states in 2001-03, the researchers found that about half of the children came from families earning under ...

While there is wide consensus that preschool is beneficial for children, only about half of 3- to 4-year-olds in the United States are enrolled, according to the National Center for Education ...

Toddlers that cost less to care for left for free preschool, creating an imbalanced demand among higher-cost infants. Wallingford was also stretched financially when the city’s $15 hourly ...

SEATTLE (AP) -- A dire child care workforce crisis amid a booming U.S. economy is compelling many industry players to turn to business tactics more closely resembling Wall Street than "Sesame ...

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