President Obama’s FY 2016 budget proposal offers a bold vision for child care and early education in America, making a landmark, ongoing investment in a continuum of child care and early education services for children from birth through school entry.

The president’s Fiscal Year 2016 budget proposes targeted investments that will benefit individuals with barriers to economic success.

Check out a side-by-side analysis of WIOA’s career pathway language and the Alliance definition and how WIOA performance measures stack up with the Alliance career pathway participant metrics.

The CDF report, Ending Child Poverty Now, finds that child poverty could be reduced by 60 percent with a $77 billion investment in existing policies and programs.

With the increasingly high costs of postsecondary education (tuition, fees, and living expenses), more low-income students are relying on work to supplement their unmet financial needs—the "gap" between college costs and what students can pay on their own or with grant aid.

Unemployment is down and job growth is getting stronger as the economy recovers from the Great Recession.  However, entering the workforce remains challenging for U.S. teenagers and young adults, who have experienced steep drops in employment. Youth and young people of color have been disproportionately…

Leading up to Tuesday’s State of the Union address, President Obama outlined his plan to reform our complex tax codes, including proposals to improve higher education tax credits to make them simpler and more accessible to low-income students.

President Obama's landmark announcement was a plan to provide high-quality child care to all low-income children under age 4.

In the 2015 State of the Union address, President Obama made clear of his efforts to alleviate low-income working families by improving the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit.

Last night, child care got long-overdue national recognition of its centrality to working families, to communities, and to the country.