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And getting behind on my bills. >> reporter: with the staff shortage worsening, nurturing is now taking 15% fewer students. how long could a family be on the wait list? >> they may be on it for the better part of 2022. >> reporter: across the u.s., roughly 10% of child care programs have closed. others are downsizing. and many parents are seeing prices rise and wait lists go. >> parents, predominantly women, cant go back to work. >> reporter: a recent survey found 84% of parents feel overwhelmed...

Care industry afloat. it helped nurture and raise wages a dollar an hour. but he works a second job at home depot. >> i was working check to check and i was getting behind on my bills. >> he is now taking 15% fewer students. >> how long could families sit on a wait list. . >> they may sit on a wait list for the better part of 2022. >> across the u.s., roughly 10% of child care programs have closed. others are downsizing. many parents are seeing prices rise and wait lists grow. >> parents, predom...

Rashawna became a stay-at-home mom when her son was born. >> the child care costs were more than we were paying in rent. i decided, hey, i have to quit my job. >> she and her husband are now trying to find day care so she can get back to work, but the wait lists are up to two years long. >> we cant find any child care. >> nearly 3 million women, including hundreds of thousands of mothers, are still out of work from the pandemic. . >> and its really important in terms of the jobs recovery going f...

Record december heat sparking extreme weather events across the united states and fueling dangerous threats from tornados, hurricane-force winds, to fires. never-before-seen forecasts with severe storms and fires across the united states. we will talk more on the significance of this ahead. it is a troubling time for the child care industry. since the pandemic, there are fewer workers, while child care costs have soared and wait lists have gotten even longer. gabe cohen joining us live with th...

Patient long after theyve fully recovered. there will be some id effects. in this case, its inflation. we got new evidence today of how strong the jobs market is. unemployment claims did tick higher, but they remain near 52-year lows. bosses simply arent firing people right now pause they cant afford to. they have so many job openings they cant fill. jim and erica, this is another reason why the fed is getting out of emergency mode here. the jobs market is moving rapidly towards full employment,...

>> the child care was more than rent. i decided i have to quit my job. >> reporter: she and her husband are trying to find daycare so she can get back to work, but the wait lists are up to two years long. >> we cant find any child care. >> reporter: nearly 300 million women are still out of work from the pandemic. >> its really important in terms of the jobs recovery going forward. >> she is adps chief economist. >> the u.s. is losing trillions of dollars when women are not fully participating i...

This country, to finally have preschool for every 3 and 4-year-old kid in this country to extend that tax cut, that tax credit, which means hundreds or thousands of dollars in the pockets of nine out of ten families with kids in this country. the urgency of making sure that we make it easier to have a loved one who needs home care by cutting those wait lists and talking about things that are going to make a real concrete and urgently needed impact in american lives not to mention of course all t...

This. world leaders are gathering in glasgow right now looking at this chance that we have, and its barely within our grasp now to be able to beat the worst effects of climate change, that means immediate action, and thats part of whats in this package. but also families are ready for the support that has been lacking for a long time in this country, to finally have preschool for every 3 and 4-year-old kid in this country, to extend that tax cut, that tax credit, which means hundreds or thousand...

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Parents directly pays staff. but centers need lots of teachers. infants can require one teacher per four children. with little to no public funding the result is wait lists. here it is through the summer of 2022. >> i feel bad because a lot of them are calling desperate looking for child care because they are having to go back into the work force and i just cant help them. >> reporter: there are nearly 127,000 fewer child care workers than before the pandemic. some citing covid fears and low pay...