This story was co-published with Mother Jones.  Updated March 27, 2026: In response to this story, YouTube terminated six channels for violating the platform’s terms of service and one channel for violating its spam policy. In a video that has been played almost 50,000 times since it was posted five months ago, two cartoon children sing...

Hunger is on the rise for the early care and education workforce, according to recent research from the Stanford Center on Early Childhood, and signs suggest the challenge is unlikely to improve in the short term. In June, 58% of early care and education providers surveyed by the RAPID Survey Project at Stanford said they...