{"id":37377,"date":"2019-04-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging2.threadalaska.org\/thread-blog\/the-child-care-crisis-is-keeping-women-out-of-the-workforce-3\/"},"modified":"2019-04-01T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T16:00:00","slug":"the-child-care-crisis-is-keeping-women-out-of-the-workforce-3","status":"publish","type":"thread-blog","link":"https:\/\/www.threadalaska.org\/thread-blog\/the-child-care-crisis-is-keeping-women-out-of-the-workforce-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Child Care Crisis Is Keeping Women Out of the Workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"blog_content\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>The Child Care Crisis Is Keeping Women Out of the Workforce <\/div>\n<div>By Leila Schochet (Center for American Progress)<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Today, many families with young children must make a choice between spending a significant portion of their income on child care, finding a cheaper, but<br \/>\n    potentially lower-quality care option, or leaving the workforce altogether to become a full-time caregiver. Whether due to high cost, limited availability,<br \/>\n    or inconvenient program hours, child care challenges are driving parents, particularly mothers, out of the workforce at an alarming rate. In fact,<br \/>\n    mothers are 40% more likely than fathers to say that they have personally felt the negative impact of child care issues on their careers. <\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/early-childhood\/reports\/2019\/03\/28\/467488\/child-care-crisis-keeping-women-workforce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This report<\/a>    highlights the relationship between child care access and maternal employment, finding that employment among mothers decreases by 12 percentage points<br \/>\n    when their family is unable to find child care<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The current child care system in the United States is broken. The United States must prioritize the needs of millions of working families and take steps<br \/>\n    to keep mothers in the workforce through investing in policies to support access to affordable, quality child care. New findings reveal that having<br \/>\n    greater access to child care would enable more mothers to seek employment and take steps to increase their earnings. Child care must be central to<br \/>\n    any policy effort to promote gender equity, grow the nation\u2019s workforce, and bolster the economy. <\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/early-childhood\/reports\/2019\/03\/28\/467488\/child-care-crisis-keeping-women-workforce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more here<\/a>    <\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","news_tags":[],"event_category":[],"news_categories":[],"class_list":["post-37377","thread-blog","type-thread-blog","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Child Care Crisis Is Keeping Women Out of the Workforce - Thread<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.threadalaska.org\/thread-blog\/the-child-care-crisis-is-keeping-women-out-of-the-workforce-3\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Child Care Crisis Is Keeping Women Out of the Workforce - Thread\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0 The Child Care Crisis Is Keeping Women Out of the Workforce By Leila Schochet (Center for American Progress) \u00a0 Today, many families with young children must make a choice... 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