Zohran Mamdani’s coalition in the New York mayor’s race includes residents who have questioned whether they can afford to raise children in the city. By Eliza Shapiro Jessica Mendoza and her husband always knew they wanted to start a family in Brooklyn ...

This week, we’re bringing you stories about what it costs to raise a child in 2025, and how families are making it work. Child care in America is broken. Working parents with young children are stretched thin; a year of daycare can easily cost more than ...

It's a holy grail of health care: forcing the industry to reveal prices negotiated between health plans and hospitals — information that had long been treated as a trade secret. And among the flurry of executive orders President Trump signed during his ...