TIME: The Childcare Crisis
Note: As of 2020, The Crisis Nursery is no longer operated by The Foundling. |
Affordable childcare is at once one of the most tantalizing promises of contemporary American life, and the most broken. Our modern economy cannot function without a system for the nurturing of our youngest citizens—as of 2017 there were nearly 15 million children under 6 in this country with all available parents in the workforce. But for everyone except the very wealthy, childcare is ruinously expensive.
Read more, including a mention of our Crisis Nursery, at TIME.