Costly childcare can be chaotic. One mom in Austin, Texas, would spend two hours driving her two kids to two different daycares. (KUT)
Beside him, his 4-year-old brother, Ryker, sang “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star,” but not until after he’d exhausted his dinosaur impersonation.
"Everybody's doing their best and patching it together," said Laurie Felker Jones, who founded JuiceBox Hero, a search engine for child care, preschool and afterschool programs."But it's hard to win in a system that wasn't designed for, quite frankly, the way the world is now." The family no longer donates plasma, but Rodriguez has picked up a second job helping with a friend’s photo booth company on nights and weekends.Council Member Garza began looking for child care when she was pregnant in early 2015, right around the time she took office.
Two years ago, council members voted to convene local child care experts to come up with ways for the city to incentivize more affordable, high-quality options for parents.. So far, the city has acted on some of them, including waiving the fee for annual inspections of child care centers that accept federal subsidies.
As soon as they got Rocky into the Oak Hill child care center, Rodriguez started searching for another option, knowing she was not happy with the quality of the center and how far it was. After six months of searching, she finally found another option. It’s more expensive, but a little closer and they can drop off Rocky five days a week.Larry Elsner, executive director of Open Door Preschools, said he understands how in demand his child care services are.
He said the balancing act of being affordable for working families while paying staff a living wage was an issue long before he came to Open Door.In the report on child care delivered to council members last year, researchers found teachers and child care workers made anywhere from $8 to $16 an hour in a city that has determined a living wage hovers around $15 an hour.
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