Coronavirus is pushing the US child care industry to the brink of collapse: Advocates

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Many working parents are learning firsthand a tough reality -- the coronavirus pandemic is pushing the nation's child care industry to the brink of collapse. 'Child care is a top concern for millions of working parents,' karentravers reports.

found that roughly half of U.S. child care capacity is at risk of disappearing.

"I'm just saying to my fellow colleagues, just ask any friend, do you have kids? What is their biggest issue right now? And this is it," she said.Child care centers are expensive to operate. Experts say they are already working around very thin margins, some often taking in just enough to cover their operating costs. Most do not have a rainy day fund for a crisis like this.

Melissa Joy's two sons went back to Circle Time after spending three months at home. She says she has had a lot of discussions with other parents about how to support the center.Karen Travers reports from Circle Time Child Center in Kensington, Md.Serrano says so far she has not been forced to lay off any staff, crediting a loan she received through the federal government's paycheck protection program.

More than 90% of the nation's 1.2 million child care workers are women. Some experts say that is a key reason the industry is undervalued and taken for granted.

 

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Some Grandparents are very busy lately.

Child care centers never had to be closed..considered essential.

What do you do? You take you child and say to your boss, 'Thanks for providing child care. Or I can take them home and you can find someone else to do this job for the shit pay you've been paying me.' That's what you do.

Pray when you forget to pretend its not a hoax

Right, child care is the reason the economy is closed, not media hysteria

Oh well

karentravers I've been thinking about the child care bring closed. How is that possible for working parents?

karentravers why not teach marketable skills that pay enough so people can live not scratch like animals

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karentravers I wonder if that has anything to do with the excessive childcare legislation?

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karentravers Is Bill Gates and Dr Fauci puppet masters If nothing else, this is a conflict of interest.

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karentravers Under Obama Ebola Zika SwineFlu Sars Mers AND AMERICA SURVIVED. Under Trump 100,000 deaths, 1MM infections, 40MM unemployed, $4 Trillion deficits, $40 Trillion National Debt, -20% GDP is NOT surviving. It's time to remove realDonaldTrump from office.

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karentravers The healthy should protect the sick! Sweden! Freedom This is what we have to look forward to

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