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20,000 day cares may have closed in the pandemic. What happens when parents go back to work?


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20,000 day cares may have closed in the pandemic. What happens when parents go back to work?
Caroline Kitchener, The Washington Post
Feb. 26, 2021
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Denise Rogers, front, the director of Sunshine Early Learning Center and Latisha Ibraheem, background, a teacher at the pre-school, on Feb. 16, 2021, in Washington D.C.Washington Post photo by Jahi Chikwendiu.
WASHINGTON - Darnita Lawrence is the kind of mom who likes to pop in and say hello to her toddler. For years, she could: Her 2 year-old son, and her 7-year-old daughter before him, went to day care at Southeast Children s Fund, one floor up from her office. She could drop off a juice box at lunch time or spend a few minutes watching them nap. ....

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Day care deserts in pandemic are getting worse. What happens when parents go back to work?


‘It will be affluent White women who continue to have access to care’
(Photo by Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post)
Caroline Kitchener
Feb. 22, 2021
Darnita Lawrence is the kind of mom who likes to pop in and say hello to her toddler. For years, she could: Her 2 year-old son, and her 7-year-old daughter before him, went to day care at Southeast Children’s Fund,
one floor up from her office. She could drop off a juice box at lunch time or spend a few minutes watching them nap.
“It was the best thing ever,” Lawrence said. ....

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