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Little Flowers Early Childhood and Development Center in Baltimore, Md., on Jan. 12, 2021. (Matt Roth / The Washington Post via Getty Images)

BY JULIE KASHEN | On Sept. 30, Congress let federal childcare stabilization grant funding expire. What happens next?

First, providers will be forced to raise tuition prices to offset the loss of stabilization grants. Then, staffing shortages. Finally, childcare programs—as many as 70,000 by our projections—will have to shut down altogether.

The good news: If Congress can get their act together to fund emergency childcare before the end of the calendar year, they can stem the worst of these consequences.

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A wooden cross reads ‘Zero Tolerance’ with St. Peter’s Basilica in the background during a protest of activists of Ending Child Abuse (ECA) against pedophilia within the Catholic Church, on on Sept. 27, 2023, ahead of Papal Synod— a religious assembly of bishops from all over the world who gather in Rome to discuss issues vital to the Roman Catholic Church and act as an advisory body to the pope. (Filippo Monteforte / AFP via Getty Images)

BY MICHELLE ONELLO | The archdiocese of Baltimore filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sept. 29 to preempt child sexual abuse lawsuits which were expected to be filed once a new Maryland law removing the statute of limitations took effect on Oct. 1.

The scheme allows the church to protect its assets, limit financial settlements, and stop civil lawsuits which would air unsavory information about decades of child sexual abuse and the church’s complicity. 

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BY VOICES OF WOMEN FOR CHANGE | In observance of the one-year anniversary of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, Voices of Women for Change—a nonprofit women’s organization based in the U.S.—created a digital event to highlight the significance of this transformative movement in Iran and to emphasize the centrality of women’s roles (and resistance) since the inception of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979.

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