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An Invisible Child Care Challenge

Job schedules plague millions of American families. What would it take to help them?
Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch (Photos via Getty Images.)

Desiree, a mother of three who lives near Santa Rosa, California, starts work at a local HVAC supply company every morning at 4:30. While she doesn’t mind the predawn start, it does pose one big challenge, especially now that she has a newborn: child care. The nearby child care center that offers subsidized prices doesn’t open until 7:30 a.m., and that “isn’t working for” her family.

Elliot Haspel is a senior fellow at the Family Policy Lab at the think tank Capita.

 

Elise Anderson is manager of the Family Policy Lab at the think tank Capita.

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