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Parents are quitting jobs, passing on raises — to qualify for child care

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The program has never been funded at the level that it needs to be to be able to meet the need, said Rachel Wilensky, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Law and Social Policy. Do we pay our providers more and serve fewer [families] or serve more families and pay our providers less? I think of it as a whack-a-mole problem.

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1 in 5 child care workers is an immigrant. Trump’s deportations and raids have many terrified

The Hechinger Report

Immigration policy can have a chilling effect on communities, causing immigrants to shy away from jobs that could increase their visibility to law enforcement agencies, said Chris Herbst, an associate professor at Arizona State University who studied the policys impact on child care between 2008 and 2014.