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We know how to help young kids cope with the trauma of the last year — but will we do it?

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Because I was putting my son’s well-being behind the economic well-being of the family.”. We will see the short-term impacts,” said Cynthia Osborne, director of the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center at the University of Texas at Austin. “We Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Sign up for? Hechinger’s newsletter.

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

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But for years after, the quest for a voucher would interfere with her quest for economic stability. 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. She hoped it would only be a temporary setback.