Editorial: Hey, Congress, this time bail out child-care providers (via latimesopinion)
The fundamental problem is that in the current environment, child-care providers lose money whenever they open their doors. To help minimize exposure and contain outbreaks, facilities are limited to 10 kids per classroom no matter the age, down from 24 in classrooms with older children. Typically, providers need to have 80% of their seats filled to make a profit, but they’re required now to operate at 40% to 60% capacity.
And they can’t cut corners on safety measures. While children may be less likely than their parents and teachers to develop severe illness from the coronavirus, they can still be infected and transmit the virus to other people. Texas repealed its emergency safety rules for child-care providers in mid-June, but reinstated the measures after aUnlike K-12 public education, child care in the U.S. is largely a private industry, with operators that rely on fees paid by customers to stay afloat.
Now she’s up to 50 students, but the future is still uncertain as the subsidies expire. “It took us 17 years to build this program,” Schneider said.
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