Child care costs

FILE - Children from a nearby daycare are escorted in Marcus Garvey Park in the Harlem neighborhood of New York Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007. Some states have moved ahead with plans of their own to boost child care subsidies after a national effort by Democrats in Washington stalled. New York lawmakers passed a state budget in the spring that calls for it to spend $7 billion making child care more affordable over the next four years. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

States boost child care money as congressional effort stalls

Some states have moved ahead with plans of their own to boost child care subsidies after a national effort by Democrats in Washington stalled.

A copy of H.R.5376, the Build Back Better Act, is seen as the House Rules Committee begins work on President Joe Biden's sweeping domestic agenda, the Build Back Better Act, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other Democratic lawmakers join activists in support of solutions to climate change as part of President Joe Biden's domestic agenda, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Douglas Emhoff, top right, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, speaks to pre-school children after reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle, at Mother Hubbard Pre-School Center, Monday, Sept. 20, 2021, in Milford, Mass. Emhoff visited the child care center to draw attention to the Biden administration's Build Back Better agenda. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Emhoff touts Biden’s infrastructure plan in preschool visit

MILFORD, Mass. (AP) — Doug Emhoff, the spouse of Vice President Kamala Harris, visited a Massachusetts preschool on Monday to promote the Biden administration’s plan to invest billions of dollars in early childhood education and ease financial pressures on working parents.

New Mexico congresswoman joins Biden’s pre-K investment push

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández told a crowd of educators and parents on Friday that she wants federal help to cap child care costs and raise pay for child care workers.

FILE - In this Aug. 27, 2018, Vincent Seeborn, 2, reaches out from a structure on the playground at the Wallingford Child Care Center in Seattle. Child care costs in most states exceed federal subsidy payments provided to low-income parents, according to a newly released report from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, leaving working families with few affordable options. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Report: Costs in most states exceed subsidies for child care

WASHINGTON (AP) — Child care costs in most states exceed federal subsidy payments provided to low-income parents, according to a newly released report from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, leaving working families with few affordable options.

Offer a helping hand during the holidays

The Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time is publishing short stories about local families and people in need of a helping hand during the holiday season.

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Why many Americans aren’t benefiting from robust US economy

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Stamford-area residents struggle to pay for health procedures

Every Thursday and Sunday through the end of the year, the Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time will publish short stories about local families and people in need of a helping hand.