OPINION: After years of silent sacrifices and unseen struggles, Black women are still holding up the child care industry
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 5, 2024
Recent reports indicate that 95 percent of child care workers are female. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that child care workers make an average of $14.22 This is in addition to the drop of more than 90,000 (42 percent) licensed family child care homes between 2005 and 2017. workforce, 18 percent of U.S.
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