Failure to Invest in High-Quality Child Care Hurts Children and State’s Economy
Child care is a necessity for working parents and a key ingredient in the state’s recipe for economic growth. Access to safe, stable and high-quality child care reduces employee absenteeism and turnover and improves businesses’ bottom line. And, because learning begins at birth, it is in child care that many children are developing the basic language, cognitive and emotional skills needed to succeed in school and beyond.