Child Care

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…

In the coming weeks, some day care facilities are set to reopen their doors after a hiatus. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,…

Updated 1:35 p.m. with comments from businessesMany St. Louis County businesses closed because of the coronavirus will be allowed to reopen May 18 with…