Major national and regional news organizations regularly interview Wake Forest faculty, staff, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus.

Triad Business Journal

Shrinking centers, financial Band-Aids make child care a crisis for Triad as parents opt out of workforce

The number of child care providers in the Triad is shrinking, financial support is expiring and parents are often opting out of the workforce, just as the region desperately needs them. Wake Forest’s new on-site KinderCare option is highlighted as an innovative solution. Ansley Tallant, director of employment solutions said enrolling her daughter has created an unexpected benefit: community. “The parents of kids in Sarah Kate’s class are my colleagues. KinderCare recently had a fall get-together and I was like, ‘Hey, I know you and you and you.’ I wasn’t anticipating the building of community, too.”

December 6, 2024

Deutsche Welle (DW)

Diplomatic ‘rope-a-dope’: Saudi Arabia key to Trump’s Mideast strategy, but Iran could be spoiler

Some analysts say the assumed benefits of such a theoretical agreement are wildly overstated. “It all sounds too good to be true, and that’s because it is,” said politics and international affairs professor William Walldorf, a senior fellow at the think tank Defense Priorities. “Advocates of the grand bargain have it all wrong. The deal will be no bargain at all for the United States but will instead turn into a major drain on U.S. security. In essence, high costs and no gain.”

December 2, 2024