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Time poverty impacts college students with jobs and kids, especially for certain groups, study shows

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Time poverty impacts college students with jobs and kids, especially for certain groups, study shows

Many college students don’t have enough time for their studies. This “time poverty,” as we call it, is often due to inadequate child care access or the need to work to pay for college and living expenses. In an effort to understand how much time poverty affects student outcomes, we surveyed more than 41,000 U.S. … Read more

These cities are offering free child care to parents and business property tax breaks

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These cities are offering free child care to parents and business property tax breaks

Last summer, Derrika Richard felt stuck. She didn’t have enough money to afford child care for her three youngest children, ages 1, 2 and 3. Yet the demands of caring for them on a daily basis made it impossible for Richard, a hairstylist, to work. One child care assistance program rejected her because she wasn’t … Read more