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

The Hechinger Report

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

The Hechinger Report

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 Then, in the spring of 2021, Ruiz was offered a job as an internal medicine resident physician at a hospital in Missouri. But we will also see this for decades to come.