
Child care hiring crisis is closing programs and keeping parents out of workforce
CNN
Across the country, more than 10% of child care workers have left the industry during the pandemic. The industry is weathering wage competition, and federal pandemic relief funds have only gone so far. With child care centers closing or downsizing, working women are paying the price.
The nonprofit, which serves mostly low-income families, has seen its staff shrink 30% during the coronavirus pandemic.
"We cannot find enough educators who are willing to come into our classrooms," CEO Laura Perille said. "Because they can earn a lot more money working anywhere other than child care."

Mutual distrust between federal and state authorities derailed plans for a joint FBI and state criminal investigation into Wednesday’s shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE officer, leading to the highly unusual move by the Justice Department to block state investigators from participating in the probe.

Vice President JD Vance’s claim Thursday that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis is “protected by absolute immunity” drew immediate pushback from experts who said the legal landscape around a potential prosecution is far more complicated.











