Children can be expensive, but the B.C. and federal governments offers some financial help for parents with kids younger than 18. Here’s a primer on the different types of child care subsidies ...

Advocates say only a sliver of children are enrolled as the province stalls on its universal child care commitment.

In addition to $10-a-day child care, B.C. also offers the affordable child care benefit, which helps providers to lower their fees, and the child care fee reduction initiative, which is an income ...

The BC Conservatives’ plan also addresses families who don’t want to put their kids into licensed child care by promising to review and increase both the Affordable Child Care Benefit and BC ...

This includes a roughly $600 reduction from the taxpayer-backed BC Affordable Child Care Benefit. Furthermore, families are being pinched by many more minor increases, ...

The British Columbia government offered child-care centres funding to increase wages for eligible ECE workers by $4 an hour in 2018. This month, it announced another increase of $2 on top of that.

More companies are dialing back on child-care benefits, leaving working parents scrambling to cover rising costs.

The BC NDP government also provided extra support for low- and middle-income families through the Affordable Child Care Benefit, which provides up to $1,250 per month per child. Affordable childcare ...

Research from the consulting firm BCG finds that just 12% of all U.S. workers get child care benefits through their employers.Companies that offer it may have a leg up over the competition. Policy ...

Being a working parent seeking affordable, accessible and high-quality child care in the United States can be as tricky — but much less fun — than solving the Rubik’s cube.