Indiana s Child Care Workers Face Low Pay, Thin Margins - And The Pandemic Made It Worse
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Amber Gritter is a home daycare provider in Lafayette serving newborns to pre-teens. The pandemic has changed a lot of the day-to-day routines in her house. But there’s one big change in particular.
“The cleaning is insane,” she said. “I m constantly taking the toys out of their mouths and putting them in the ‘yuck bucket.’”
But as Gritter has watched her cleaning demands increase, she’s seen the cost of those products rise, too.
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