Melissa Colagrosso and her husband have struggled to make a profit during the nearly three decades they’ve owned A Place To Grow Children’s Center in West Virginia. “We borrowed a lot of money. We ...

Home-based child care provider Pam Childress reading a story Keisha Bailey has been bringing her son to the home of Pam Childress, a home-based child care provider, since he was nine months old.

For many child care providers, the place they call home is the very same space where they work. And a threat to the roof over their heads can upend their personal lives and their livelihoods.