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The pandemic has made clear what many experts had long warned: The absence of reliable and affordable child care limits the jobs people can accept, makes it harder to climb the corporate ladder and ultimately restricts the ability of the broader economy to grow. Now, each caretaker resignation, coronavirus exposure and day care center closure reveals an industry on the brink, with wide-reaching implications for an entire economy's workforce.

The pandemic has forced many people — mostly women — to lose their jobs, and created a labor shortage as well

The pandemic has forced many people — mostly women — to lose their jobs, and created a labor shortage as well

Child Care Aware of America estimates that 9 percent of child care programs in the U.S. shut doors since the onset of the pandemic.

SEATTLE (AP) — After Bryan Kang’s son was born in July, the occupational therapist and his wife, a teacher, started looking for child care in the Los Angeles area. The couple called eight day care centers: Some didn't have spots for months; others stopped taking their calls and some never answered at all.