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Three years ago, when DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb joined attorneys general across the country in taking legal action against Meta, DC Action applauded their willingness to take on one of the most powerful companies in the world on behalf

Three months after the DC Council provided funding to open the waitlist for the Childcare Subsidy Program, the Bowser Administration continues to deny enrollment to the majority of families who have been waiting in limbo since May.

Washington D.C.’s child poverty rate spiked to more than 28% in 2024, according to the latest Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT Data Book. The annual report tracks child well-being nationwide across four areas: economic well-being, education, health, and family and community structures.

New 2026 KIDS COUNT Data Book Finds Child Poverty in the District is Increasing, with More Than a Quarter of Children Living in Poverty. DC Action Urges Policymakers to Focus on Budget and Policy Interventions to Support Thriving Kids and

Fances Goines says she feels “naked” without having a job; she’s been working since she was 11. But when Goines moved into one of the city’s family homeless shelters and was told she needed to have around-the-clock childcare for her 13-year-old son, she had to quit working to watch him.

Advocates are pushing back after Mayor Muriel Bowser proposed cutting the Pay Equity Fund in her latest 2027 budget proposal.

There’s less money to go around for the first time since she took office.

Finding day care and being able to pay for it is an enduring problem in the District. Voters are hungry for a new way to slash costs.

UPO announced its closure, along with three other centers, in March, leaving parents with just a month to find care.