From the column: "The Great Start Child Care and Dependent Care Tax Credit ... would dramatically reduce the cost of child care for 175,000 working families in Minnesota."
From the column: "The challenge reaches far beyond Duluth. There is an urgent need for state and federal resources, on the scale we invest in other aspects of our children’s education."
From the column: "Ages 0-5 are when children develop at a rate like no other time in their lives. It is precisely when we should be pouring our resources into them."
Minnesota often tops lists for most expensive child care in the U.S. Areas outside the Twin Cities metro lost more than 20,000 child care slots between 2000 and 2020.
From the column: "The pandemic exacerbated burnout amongst child-care workers. Safety precautions and quarantines led to understaffing. ... Workers were already experiencing burnout, and the pandemic amplified it."
November 23, 2022 02:14 PM
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By Jaydan Trnka, Grace Hellwig, Stella Wilton, Tayva Plasch, and Lily Hess
