Jul 11, 2024
New law will have impact on child care across South Carolina
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South Carolina leaders have pledged to do more to ensure every family has access to high-quality and affordable child care.
Jun 19, 2024
Program aims to boost childcare worker retention in SC
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For many families, parents can’t work if they lack childcare, which can have a major trickle-down impact on their employers and the economy.
Dec 1, 2023
Lack of affordable childcare costs SC $1.4 billion. 'Without childcare, parents can’t work.'
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In South Carolina, the lack of reliable childcare for working parents costs the state $1.4 billion in annual costs.
Sep 27, 2023
America’s child care problem is about to get a lot worse. Here’s why
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Nationwide, more than 70,000 child care programs are projected to close, and about 3.2 million children could lose their spots due to the end of the child care stabilization grant program on September 30, according to an analysis by The Century Foundation.
Sep 12, 2023
Parents Are at the Top of Their Spending for This’ As Costs Rise, Finding Child Care Becoming More Difficult
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Finding child care – and often at an affordable price – is a problem familiar to most working parents. In Columbia, South Carolina, according to one parent, women quip that the minute they know they’re pregnant, they get on a waiting list for day care, even before telling their spouses they’re expecting.
Jun 15, 2023
By the Numbers: A look at South Carolina's child care crisis
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Data from the National Institute of Children's Health shows that child care workers are paid less than 98% of professions.