Affordable child care continues to plague both families and day care workers. The cost of child care often exceeds the cost of tuition at four-year public universities! That’s ridiculous!
Then, consider that day care workers make on average less than $23,000/year and 75% of them earn less than a living wage. So naturally, there’s a shortage of child care in most cities across the nation.
This hits low-income families the hardest because they pay about 30% of their income for child care. Higher-income families pay only about 8% of their income for child care.