Childcare Providers and Their Fight for the True Cost of Care
Family child care providers keep California working, but state subsidy rates are stuck in 2018. Five providers and former Assemblymember Dion Aroner on the fight for the true cost of care.
In this episode of 99 Rising, family child care providers share why parents choose in-home child care over centers, what a 14 to 16 hour day looks like, what it really costs to run a home child care program, and why subsidies cover only part of that cost. They also talk about staying open for essential workers during COVID and what they want from California's next governor.
Then host Max Arias sits down…
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