One of our clients has been running an in-home family child care business for nearly 20 years. With all the challenges Sally faces as a small business owner, filling up child care slots is not one of them. Sally is only half-joking when she tells her families she should be one of the first people they inform about a new pregnancy, so she can plan to have space available.
The success of the U.S. has primarily been based on hard work. Whether we are talking industrial or pre-industrial days, the key to hard work, productivity, and our survival was in having someone at home to tend to the children to support the job holder outside the home. In the latter half of the 20th […]
The shortage of quality, affordable child care is ringing alarm bells for companies, regional economic developers and politicians who understand it’s no longer a problem that can be pushed off on families to resolve on their own – it’s a threat to growing businesses and economies. As workplaces try to find a new normal after […]
Approximately 60% of rural families are living in a child care desert in this country. What does that mean? The Center for American Progress defines a child care desert as any census tract where more than 50 children under the age of 5 have no access to child care providers, or where there are three […]
