Child care is about to get even more expensive as pandemic funds end
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Federal funding has helped child care providers compete for workers. It’s also helped them pay their rent, mortgage or utilities and buy supplies to make their spaces more COVID-safe.
Without it, “I think we would have potentially seen a decimation of the system that we have in place today,” said Stephanie Schmit at the nonprofit Center for Law and Social Policy.
Source URL: https://www.marketplace.org/2023/08/17/child-care-expensive-end-of-pandemic-funding/
