Jess Carson and Marybeth Mattingly

Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Mom watches her son play on the playground in New Hampshire

Courtesy of听Sentinel Source

Research听by Jess Carson, research assistant professor at the Carsey School, and Marybeth听Mattingly, policy fellow at the Carsey School, show that the pandemic has proven just how fragile听the nation鈥檚 early childhood care system is.听The central problems, according to Carson and Mattingly, are that child care providers don鈥檛 generate enough revenue to pay staff members well, making it difficult to find employees; simultaneously, care is too costly for many families to afford.

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