by Sara Weissman A lack of on-campus childcare also impacts some communities more than others. Nearly 42% of student parents attend community colleges, and large percentages of minority students have kids at home. About a [...]

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by Lois Elfman Head Start services and on-campus childcare centers can help student parents earn their degrees and establish long-term economic security. That’s the findings from a new report titled, “Head Start-College Partnerships as a [...]

By Madeline St. Amour Improving funding so that federal Head Start programs can partner with colleges could be the answer to the childcare needs of student parents, who numbered 3.8 million in the 2015-16 academic year, [...]

by Elissa Nadworny In 2018, Congress more than tripled CCAMPIS funding — from $15 million to $50 million. Even with that increase, estimates by IWPR show the program only serves about 11,000 student parents. "It's [...]

by Kylie Cheung The majority of the one-in-four American women who have abortions are women of color, and 75 percent are low-income; about half (49 percent) live below the federal poverty line. Fifty-nine percent of [...]