The Last Day at Kids of Faith: Parents Navigating a Child Care Crisis (opens in new tab)

During the coronavirus pandemic, emergency federal funding in 2020 helped more than 200,000 child care providers stay open. Four years later, that funding expired. Most states didn’t make up the shortfall, leading to mass closures of day cares around the U.S. The Trump administration has no apparent plans to step in. President Trump said at the White House earlier this month that “the United States can’t take care of day care.” Amid a war with Iran, he went on, “we have to take care of one th...