child care

Example Sentences

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Her schedule was changed to prevent run-ins with the chief, which made it difficult for her to obtain child care and prevented her from working overtime, she said in the lawsuit.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

Mejia, a union organizer, ran on a platform of affordability for the working class, including increasing funding for child care and raising taxes on the highest earners.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2026

He claimed a number of accomplishments, including securing $1.2bn for child care and fixing 100,000 potholes.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

It said the government could make it easier for workers to get jobs in human-centric fields like child care and could do more to recognize caregiving as work valuable to the economy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

These are the qualities that welfare - to-work job-training programs often seek to inculcate, though I suspect that most welfare recipients already possess them, or would if their child care and transportation problems were solved.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich