Everyone is talking about the Great Resignation—employees leaving their jobs en masse due to burnout amplified by the pandemic.
But there’s one industry where those employee exits are causing a domino effect: childcare.
According to the Department of Labor, daycare and other childcare jobs are down 10 percent – that’s a decline of nearly 127,000 since the pandemic started.
And in a nation where childcare and paid family leave aren’t guaranteed, it’s having devastating effects.
How do we fix the childcare shortage?
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