How to Use childcare in a Sentence

childcare

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Definition of childcarenext
  • That’s gonna cost, uh, 26.7 million over the next two years in childcare.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 13 July 2023
  • The two used the app to message each other about childcare.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 25 July 2022
  • Those with school-age kids may need childcare once school is out.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
  • On the first floor will be a café that will serve as a workspace, as well as a drop-in childcare center.
    — Thomas Birmingham, The Courier-Journal, 16 Aug. 2022
  • His wife, also a film worker, turned to childcare to pay the bills.
    — Andrew Hay, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2023
  • In fact, the cost of childcare has been steadily rising over many years.
    — Jill Schlesinger, The Mercury News, 17 June 2024
  • There’s a big crisis around childcare; there aren’t enough providers.
    — Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • California is one of the priciest states in the U.S. for childcare.
    — Cortlynn Stark, Sacramento Bee, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Bustillos is one of many people in the state who have had their horizons widened thanks to free childcare.
    — Bryce Covert, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Women have in turn, left their jobs in droves to take on the extra childcare burdens.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2022
  • A number of women in the comments on the above clip are agreeing with her on the childcare question.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 13 Dec. 2024
  • There’s no doubt that women feel the effects of the childcare crisis more keenly than men.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2024
  • How has one couple run a home childcare business for three decades?
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 19 July 2023
  • Has childcare pushed you to quit your job or delay finding work?
    — Samantha Masunagastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022
  • At the time, Koike said the policy changes will help parents be more able to balance childcare and work.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune Asia, 12 Dec. 2024
  • There was a big jump in July in tuition, school fees and childcare, which were 6.4% higher than in May and 9.1% above a year ago.
    — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The city ranked 20th in health and safety and 43rd for education and childcare.
    — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2024
  • When Romero had her first child in high school, finding a way to afford childcare and go to school was stressful.
    — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 23 Jan. 2024
  • By and large, those childcare workers have not returned.
    — Time, 11 July 2023
  • But women—the group that does the most domestic labor and childcare at home—have been the most overtaxed.
    — Glamour, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Even among high-income economies, women still spend twice as much time than men on childcare.
    — Corinne Post, Forbes, 8 June 2022
  • But going to the office isn’t worth the time and hassle of driving and arranging childcare, and no one can have it all.
    — Anna Kramer, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
  • They were thrilled to find childcare where all the workers wore masks and were vaccinated.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 31 Jan. 2022
  • And yet make no mistake: America is still in the midst of a severe childcare crisis.
    — TIME, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The family also has a live-in au pair from France who also helps with childcare.
    — Trey Williams, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2022
  • The mayor said the suspects had broken a trust people have with childcare workers.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2023
  • This means that working from home is used to expand childcare or housework hours.
    — Caitlin Harrington, Wired, 13 Feb. 2022
  • And, a big goal for 2024: &Mother is hoping to bring childcare to runners who are parents.
    — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The insurance allows a maximum of $1,000 for eldercare and childcare.
    — PCMAG, 22 Jan. 2025
  • With childcare proving expensive or often unavailable and jobs consistently demanding, there are often occasions when these two worlds collide as David Nicolson knows only too well.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025

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