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  • Multi-tasking mumSuccess

    $2,000 a month childcare costs are driving moms without college degrees out of the workforce: ‘I really didn’t want to quit’

    By Moriah Balingit, Sharon Lurye, and others
  • FILE – Rep. Emily O’Brien R-Grand Forks carries daughter Jolene Green, 3 weeks, into the House chamber, Dec. 6, 2022, in Bismarck, N.D. Last year, the state representative helped persuade her colleagues to approve $66 million in child care spending proposed by Gov. Doug Burnum, a Republican. O’Brien argued it could help the state’s workforce shortage by helping more parents go to work. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)Politics

    Now Republican states are backing child care spending, saying it can ease workforce shortages by helping parents go back to work: ‘Child care is a critical infrastructure’

    By Moriah Balingit and The Associated Press