Figure 3 shows how many jobs the child care industry lost in 2020. At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the sector lost more than 350,000 jobs in a single month.

The Child Care Crisis Causes Job Disruptions for More Than 2 Million Parents Each Year. Across the country, expensive and limited child care options are causing parents to interrupt their jobs and ...

Turnover was a problem before the pandemic. The hemorrhaging comes as no surprise given the hard realities of working in this industry. Child care workers earned a median hourly wage of just $11. ...

The child care sector recorded 2,100 fewer jobs in November than the previous month, according to the latest report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This estimate includes employees in the ...

According to a report released Wednesday, more than 1 out of 5 of the nearly 1 million people employed in the U.S. as child care providers in February have lost their jobs. Women account for 95% ...

The cost of child care has increased 220% in the last three decades, according to Lisa Hamilton, president of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, which since 1990 has tracked this and other issues ...

PA loses $6.65B annually due to child care gaps. Leaders and businesses are stepping up with solutions to help working ...

Impact on child care providers. Before the pandemic, women made up more than 90 percent of the child care sector with more than 1.1 million workers overall, according to data from the U.S. Census ...

Jobs in the child care sector, too, have continued to expand, with more people working in the sector as of April than in any time on record.

A dearth of child care and elder care choices is causing many women to reorganize their working lives and prompting some to forgo jobs altogether, hurting the economy at a moment when companies ...

The Trump administration's downsizing plans create ripple effects beyond job losses, putting essential services like daycare ...

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