Ms. Booth is a senior policy correspondent for Vox. No major American city has ever built a universal child care system. That means that nearly three-quarters of American parents who are looking for a ...

Vice President Kamala Harris announced a new child care plan Tuesday that proposes that working families would not pay more than 7% of their income for child care. This was the first time the ...

On Thursday, Gov. Kathy Hochul unveiled her plans for a pathway to universal child care, which starts with expanding universal pre-K statewide and enacting free child care for 2-year-olds in New York ...

Rebecca Bailin pays $32,000 a year for her five-month-old's all-day child care in New York City. That's higher than the national average, but not unusual. Many parents in the city and in other parts ...

When Kathy Hochul announced her endorsement of Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor, the more moderate governor stressed that while she had distinct policy differences with him, the two had areas of ...