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The True Cost of Providing Safe Child Care During the Coronavirus Pandemic

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By: Simon Workman and Steven Jessen-Howard, Center for American Progress September 3, 2020
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Parents have long struggled to find and afford child care that meets their needs; and child care businesses have equally struggled to balance the cost of providing quality care, Now, the pandemic has exacerbated the child care crisis and raised new challenges.

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Since 2020, BUILD Initiative has explored how the child welfare system and other early childhood systems (i.e., health, mental health, housing, early intervention, transportation, economic support, early care and education and all the child-and-family serving systems) can align and work together to achieve better outcomes for children and families. According to Dr. Cynthia Tate, who leads the project, several states are developing promising programs, policies, and strategies that can inspire other states.