Free child care from higher taxes? These cities subsidize daycare
Time:2024-05-21 21:32:40 Source:worldViews(143)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Last summer, Derrika Richard felt stuck. She didn’t have enough money to afford child care for her three youngest children, ages 1, 2 and 3. Yet the demands of caring for them on a daily basis made it impossible for Richard, a hairstylist, to work. One child care assistance program rejected her because she wasn’t working enough. It felt like an unsolvable quandary: Without care, she couldn’t work. And without work, she couldn’t afford care.
But Richard’s life changed in the fall, when, thanks to a new city-funded program for low-income families called City Seats, she enrolled the three children at Clara’s Little Lambs, a child care center in the Westbank neighborhood of New Orleans. For the first time, she’s earning enough to pay her bills and afford online classes.
“It actually paved the way for me to go to school,” Richard said one morning this spring, after walking the three children to their classrooms. City Seats, she said, “changed my life.”
Previous:Benedict Cumberbatch looks suave as he joins his co
Next:DR MARTIN SCURR: How losing your hearing may cause dementia
You may also like
- Four people killed in a house explosion in southwestern Missouri
- Endless War
- China's Lu wins women's windsurfer RS:X at Tokyo Olympics
- Abortion: Progressive candidates share their stories after Roe's fall
- Arrest Lord Mountbatten's self
- Commentary: U.S. needs to honor commitments with actions to improve ties with China
- PLA Day warmly celebrated in Pakistan
- China's adjustment of COVID
- Ben Whishaw lights up the Croisette as he joins his co