Over half of all child care providers in Texas are losing money every day they’re open, and a third of them fear they’ll have to close within three months if they don’t enroll more children or receive more coronavirus aid.
That’s according to a recent survey by a national early education association that’s been pressing Congress for more relief.
Among the survey’s finding for child care providers in Texas:
- Just over half said they know of multiple day cares or family in-home providers that have closed permanently in their community.
“There are many providers that are, quote-unquote, ‘open’ — hanging on by their fingernails,” said
They’re among many industries and sectors that are hoping Congressional leaders will overcome a stalemate and pass a roughly $900 billion coronavirus relief package to help American families and workers struggling this holiday season.
“Hopefully, this crisis has just demonstrated in obvious ways how if childcare doesn’t work, the rest of the economy doesn’t work,” Evans Allvin said. “And so we have got to fix the structure of the child-care system. And that is making the economics of child care work, that’s making it accessible for parents so that parents have real choices in high quality child care.”