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Advocates say the state is making it harder for families to receive child care benefits, causing further challenges to an already taxed child care work sector.

Columbus State Community College and the YMCA of Central Ohio are planning to bring a $38 million YMCA facility to Columbus State's downtown campus.

New parental expectations are different for this generation. With the rise in the cost of childcare, and both parents working, grandparents are filling the role of a childcare provider.

Many families in Ohio struggle to find affordable child care. But for families who have children with severe medical needs, childcare centers are not an option at all.

The budget appropriates $10 million to pilot a 鈥渢ri-share鈥� program, which creates cost-sharing of child care costs between workers, their work and the state government.

The American Folklife Center recently released a collection of interviews with Central Appalachian child care workers recounting their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The bill backed by lawmakers would establish a new program with the state and employers to help Ohio parents with child care costs.

Ohio is facing a child care crisis. Groundwork Ohio reports 30% of Ohioans can't access childcare. Infant center-based care in Montgomery County annually costs $14,189 on average.

Two GOP state lawmakers came out with an identical pair of proposals Wednesday to create a public-private child care funding partnership in Ohio.

The impact of child care shortages aren鈥檛 contained to families with children, because businesses are also affected.