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Janet Singerman and Dr. Kristi Snuggs discuss how to solve NC’s child care crisis

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Janet Singerman and Dr. Kristi Snuggs, co-leaders of the North Carolina Child Care Resource and Referral Council (Courtesy photos)

No industry in our state is, at once, both so critically important and so grievously undervalued as early childhood education. While everyone from the chamber of commerce, to parents, to economists and academics agrees that a robust and healthy child care industry is vitally important for the economy, workers, families and, of course, children, funding remains desperately inadequate.

Federal COVID relief dollars provided a vital boost to the industry for a while, but today hundreds of North Carolina child care centers remain in constant peril of closing. Fortunately, the solution to the problem is no mystery. As NC Newsline learned in a recent conversation with the co-leaders of the North Carolina Child Care Resource and Referral Council – Janet Singerman and Dr. Kristi Snuggs – what’s needed is a meaningful and sustained funding commitment from the North Carolina legislature.

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Janet Singerman and Dr. Kristi Snuggs, co-leaders of the North Carolina Child Care Resource and Referral Council (Courtesy photos)

No industry in our state is, at once, both so critically important and so grievously undervalued as early childhood education. While everyone from the chamber of commerce, to parents, to economists and academics agrees that a robust and healthy child care industry is vitally important for the economy, workers, families and, of course, children, funding remains desperately inadequate.

Federal COVID relief dollars provided a vital boost to the industry for a while, but today hundreds of North Carolina child care centers remain in constant peril of closing. Fortunately, the solution to the problem is no mystery. As NC Newsline learned in a recent conversation with the co-leaders of the North Carolina Child Care Resource and Referral Council – Janet Singerman and Dr. Kristi Snuggs – what’s needed is a meaningful and sustained funding commitment from the North Carolina legislature.

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