The history of child care

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom

Published December 9, 2025 at 10:54 AM CST

Here & Now’s Robin Young talks with Princeton University historian Julian Zelizer about the history of child care in the U.S. and how a veto by former President Richard Nixon in 1971 laid the groundwork for the state of child care today.

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