Child Care

The child care gap across the country is more than 30%, meaning the need for quality child care far outweighs the supply — and it's worse in rural areas.

Both the Senate president pro tem and Senate minority leader agree that Missouri needs to pay state workers more. Whether they go with exactly Gov. Mike Parson’s proposed plan is yet to be determined.

Child care businesses are struggling to recruit new employees and retain staff. The Missouri chamber is touting its Chamber Benefit Plan, a novel health insurance project, to lower health insurance costs for providers and entice them to offer coverage to their employees.

St. Louis nursing student earned the title “milk donor extraordinaire” for giving 5,000 ounces of surplus breastmilk to the nonprofit Milk Bank.

The mandate will cover 55,000 workers. Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s executive order requires day care professionals submit to weekly COVID-19 testing until they are fully vaccinated.

Nearly half of the state’s working moms lost jobs or worked fewer hours during the pandemic.

Essential workers across food service, nursing homes and janitorial services say they’re risking their health and safety as they go into work every day during the coronavirus pandemic.

As schools in the St. Louis region plan for a predominately virtual start to the academic year, children may again be left largely to their own devices.And yes, that’s in both senses of the phrase.

A new report by a nonprofit group of retired admirals and generals shows that lack of access to quality and affordable child care in Missouri is limiting…

This summer, there will be just as many kids at Camp Home as Camp Anawanna. While summer camps are allowed to resume Monday in St. Louis and St. Louis…