Ohio's Policy Kitchen

You can’t have high-quality child care when caregivers live in poverty

Posted on 01/29/20 by Will Petrik in Education & Training

State policies that support affordable, high-quality child care are common sense. Child care can help set up kids for success in school and later in life. It gives parents with young children the opportunity to work knowing their kids are safe. And with proper support from the state and federal government, child care can offer jobs with good wages so caregivers can live with dignity, and progress in their careers. In Ohio, the cost of child care is far too high for many families and child care workers are deeply undervalued, making just over $10 an hour on average. New research... read more