Without renewed funding, one in every four child care providers could shutter and 80% of facilities expect to raise prices.

The government will spend ¥388 billion from budget reserves for the measures in its first fiscal spending in response to the ...

Jillian Lederman’s generally sensible take on education in Massachusetts (“Massachusetts Puts Its Education Excellence at Risk,” Cross Country, Dec. 28) includes the recommendation ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is cracking down on states' use of taxpayer dollars allotted to Medicaid to pay ...

TOKYO -- Japan will soon move to support the domestic antibiotics industry as part of public and private efforts to reduce the supply chain's heavy exposure to China. The measures will include ...

They subsidize only one model of caring for children (two earners combined with institutional day care), and they are large subsidies to the child care industry rather than to parents. Britt and ...

The Social Security System (SSS) said that more than 500 barangay health workers and nutrition scholars will get social security protection under the SSS Contribution Subsidy Provider Program (CSPP) a ...

TOKYO -- For the first time, Japan will help pay for security guards to protect school buses serving Japanese schools in China, following a knife attack on a Japanese family at a bus stop in the ...

The Tokyo metropolitan government will subsidize the cost of “painless delivery,” the use of an epidural or other anesthetics during childbirth, for Tokyo residents starting in fiscal 2025.