The state is launching a new effort for child care business owners to navigate everything from licensing requirements to ...

Many of Michigan’s early education providers are getting raises — at least temporarily. An expanding pilot program, called the Early Childhood Educator Wage Initiative, supports monthly stipends of up ...

The vast majority of child care providers in Michigan cannot afford to offer their employees benefits. A new state pilot program looks to change that and reduce employee turnover by setting up an ...

LANSING — Legislators are backing a drive to tackle Michigan's child care crisis, including with a potential new licensing classification designed to expand statewide a type of small day care center ...

The state’s child care subsidy program helps low-income families afford child care. The increased scrutiny that started in Minnesota's child care subsidy program has spread to programs in states ...

The Republican-controlled Michigan House of Representatives proposed a $20 million cut to the state's childcare assistance program for low-income families. The proposal aims to recoup state funds by ...

A set of Michigan bills aimed at lowering the cost of child care received a hearing Tuesday before the state Senate Housing and Human Services Committee. Committee chair Senator Jeff Irwin (D-Ann ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Yvonne Hardiman has run a day care center at her Grand Rapids home for 20 years and counts on federal funding to stay open. She was “shocked” to learn Friday that the ...

Childcare providers in Michigan say zoning woes burden their already overstretched businesses, resulting in less seats for ...