The High Cost of Child Care
Recently, Child Care Aware released its 2017 annual report on the high cost of child care and the impacts it has on families across the country. For some families, it costs more to send children to child care facilities while continuing to work than it does for a parent to just stop working and become the primary caregiver. In the Midwest, a typical family with two children will spend more money on child care than on their rent or mortgage! Every child deserves the opportunity to attend a high quality early education program. Higher academic achievement, appropriate social-emotional development, and a family environment with less financial stress are just a few of the benefits of making high quality programs affordable for families. Our country can and should do more for families. We all deserve better.
March 14, 2018 @ 4:40 pm
COAD continues to help our Appalachian families, employers and service providers understand the complex industry of early care and education. Such cost is not just a family matter. It is a social matter; an economic development matter; a matter of cost in the continuum of education birth through the range of public education and training, and into the work force. On May 18, 2018 COAD and regional partners are hosting an event to bring awareness to our business community and our region’s legislators about the critical nature of quality early learning and investing in tomorrow’s workforce. For more information, email mboggs@coadinc.org.