The Washington Post, July 11, 2016
According to researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, 46 percent of child-care workers in 2015 were part of families enrolled in at least one safety net program like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), while 26 percent in the broader workforce were enrolled. About two million adults in the U.S. are employed in caring and educating more than 12 million children, infants to 5-year-olds. Although developmental scientists, economists and business and labor leaders have recognized the developmental, health, and long-term economic importance of early care and education, “[e]conomic insecurity, linked to low wages, remains endemic among those who care for and educate young children,” write the study’s authors.
Read the entire article at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/11/the-people-taking-care-of-our-kids-live-in-poverty/.
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