Child care is expensive — and if you’re a working parent or caregiver, you’ve probably felt the sting. But here’s the good news: if you paid for child or dependent care so you could work or look for ...

There is no special federal day care tax form. H&R Block says most day care providers work as independent contractors, so you file taxes the same way any self-employed business owner does. Your ...

If you’re a parent or caregiver working or looking for work, you might benefit from a special tax break to offset the costs of care for your dependent. The federal child and dependent care tax credit ...

Most parents who work are familiar with the child- and dependent-care credit. This is a tax credit for a portion of what is paid for child care so that the parents can work. After-school-care programs ...

Child care costs have been a hot topic in the 2024 presidential race. Here are key facts about the issue, based on data from the federal government and Pew Research Center surveys. How we did this Pew ...

The past decade of child care legislation illustrates an increase in bipartisan action on the child care crisis and highlights the need for Congress to enact legislation to support a federally funded ...

This story was originally published by The 19th on April 2, 2024. For more than a decade, Erin Farias has watched the low-income families who send children to the day cares she runs navigate America’s ...