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After paying for rent, necessities and child care there was no money left, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are expecting people that make a little bit of money to pay more money on top of expenses and cost of living and everything else,” Rosales said. “The whole point of why we have the subsidy is because our income is within the limits. So it doesn’t make sense to ask someone to pay another bill that could go toward something else.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Chris Hoene, executive director, California Budget and Policy Center\"]‘If you are an individual with lower income and you are trying to access subsidized child care, the fees are a barrier. And if you can afford the fees, then the next barrier is finding a provider.’[/pullquote]California helps lower-income families afford child care through several programs. For most families, the programs are free, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/calworks-child-care/program-eligibility\">others must pay a share of their subsidized child care costs\u003c/a> — what the state refers to as a “family fee.” Families pay the fee directly to their child care provider or to the contractor who manages their subsidized child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, to qualify for state-subsidized child care, a family must earn 85% or less of the state median household income. Those who earn less than 40% of that amount pay nothing for child care. Families earning between 40% and 85% of the state median income pay \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/CDSS_Famfeeschedule_SubChildCare_FY2022-23.pdf\">child care fees on a sliding scale\u003c/a> that could be as much as 10% of their household income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, a family earning $50,000 a year would pay $175 a month in family fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pandemic put a spotlight on the child care challenges facing families with the lowest incomes, who got hit hardest by COVID-19. Many worked service jobs that were frozen or eliminated, or worked essential jobs they were required to do in person. Their circumstances drove state officials to waive the fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Social Services, which oversees the state’s subsidized child care program, declined a request for an interview and only responded to questions via email. Spokesperson Scott Murray wrote that more than 26,000 families in various child care assistance programs “may have benefited from family fee waivers in the 2021-22 fiscal year.” He said the agency estimates about $88 million in fees will be waived in this fiscal year, which runs through June 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928091\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11928091\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/09222022_MarisolRosales_CM_PU_15-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A Latina woman helps her two small kids out of the car, one of the kids is kissing her on the cheek as the other gets out.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/09222022_MarisolRosales_CM_PU_15-CM-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/09222022_MarisolRosales_CM_PU_15-CM-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/09222022_MarisolRosales_CM_PU_15-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/09222022_MarisolRosales_CM_PU_15-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/09222022_MarisolRosales_CM_PU_15-CM-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marisol Rosales and her children go out for dinner in Los Angeles on Sept. 22, 2022. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The family fees were first established in 1998, Murray wrote, and are based on a federal requirement for programs funded by the Child Care and Development Fund, a federal grant program that funds child care nationwide. The \u003ca href=\"https://childcareta.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/public/family_co-payment_brief_0.pdf#:~:text=While%20the%20definition%20did%20not%20change%2C%20the%20Administration,access%20section%20of%20the%20CCDF%20Final%203%20Rule.\">law allows states to set their own fees\u003c/a> and determine the sliding scale for families, but it also outlines how fees “must be affordable and not be a barrier to families receiving assistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A legislative analysis of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB92\">the bill that would have permanently waived the fees\u003c/a> found that eliminating the fees for some families and decreasing the fees for others would cost $136 million a year. A 2021 study by the \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/california-families-pay-high-price-for-subsidized-child-care/\">California Budget and Policy Center\u003c/a> found that the state collects about $68 million annually in child care fees from families with low and moderate incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July of 2020 the state started \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/cd/ci/mb2019a.asp\">waiving the fees\u003c/a> for some families and eventually agreed to offer waivers to all families for the rest of that fiscal year as part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.calhr.ca.gov/Documents/2021.04.20%20COVID%20Relief%20Agreement.pdf\">its agreement with the Child Care Providers United union\u003c/a>. In 2021, the state and the union again agreed that waivers would continue through June of 2022. This summer the state budgeted $136 million to \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/Additional-Resources/Fiscal-and-Financial-Information/Local-Assistance-Estimates/2022/2022-May-Revision-CCD-Tab.pdf\">extend the waivers\u003c/a> for all families one more year, through June 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The benefits of the waiver have been felt by families across the state, said Mary Ignatius, a statewide organizer at Parent Voices, a grassroots organization focused on child care accessibility and affordability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the rising costs of just about everything and inflation, and the fact that the child tax credit expired at the federal level, these dollars came at a time of critical importance,” Ignatius said. “Families have been reducing debt, eliminating predatory credit cards, raising credit scores, going back to school full-time … paying down utility bills that were in delinquency, just paying rent and putting their kids in extracurricular activities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, by San Bernardino Assemblymember Eloise Gómez Reyes, would have \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB92\">ended fees\u003c/a> for all families that earn below 75% of the state median income and created a sliding scale for those who earn between 75% and 85%. The fees would amount to no more than 1% of a family’s income.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Mary Ignatius, statewide organizer, Parent Voices\"]‘Scraping together money for these fees instead of spending it on food, on housing, on activities for their children, for bills, for paying down debt — that’s financial pressure. What the state is experiencing pales in comparison.’[/pullquote]Newsom said the bill’s cost was prohibitive, writing in \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/AB-92-VETO-message.pdf?emrc=fee16d\">his veto message for this bill\u003c/a> and several others that state revenue is expected to decrease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates were critical, saying Newsom does not understand the struggle of families that need child care to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom started his tenure as governor with promises to help families with child care costs and access. Since then, his administration has budgeted for more subsidized child care slots and has led an expansion of transitional kindergarten. Despite this, advocates say the state is still not doing enough for child care providers and struggling families with young children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has been some progress made on child care, but the significant reform and expansion that the governor actually promised and signaled in his first budget address hasn’t been there,” said Chris Hoene, executive director of the California Budget and Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the biggest issues that have gone unattended are the lack of child care workers and the low pay rate for those workers. Without these workers, parents struggle to find care, even if they are approved for a subsidy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are an individual with lower income and you are trying to access subsidized child care, the fees are a barrier,” Hoene said. “And if you can afford the fees, then the next barrier is finding a provider.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill Newsom vetoed was popular in the Legislature, where it passed with no dissenting votes, and had strong support from parent and child care advocates. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB92\">No opposition was filed against the bill\u003c/a>, according to the Assembly analysis. That’s why Reyes and advocates plan to use the next eight months to try again through the budget process or another bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Rosales, the child care fee waiver has given her and her husband a chance to catch up financially. With that $400 a month savings, she got caught up on utility bills and paid off a student loan. Most exciting for her: paying for football for her sons and folklorico dance lessons for her daughters and herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Learning the traditional Mexican dance was a childhood dream her family could never afford. But this month Rosales dropped the class for herself to start saving money for child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m already stressing out about the $400 payment that is coming back next year and already trying to cut back on expenses,” she said. “It’s very upsetting. After football season I’m not going to enroll my boys in anything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ignatius, of Parent Voices, said eliminating the fees is critical for the survival of families already living paycheck to paycheck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Real cost pressures are what families are facing every single day,” she said. “Scraping together money for these fees instead of spending it on food, on housing, on activities for their children, for bills, for paying down debt — that’s financial pressure. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>California helps lower-income families afford child care through several programs. For most families, the programs are free, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/calworks-child-care/program-eligibility\">others must pay a share of their subsidized child care costs\u003c/a> — what the state refers to as a “family fee.” Families pay the fee directly to their child care provider or to the contractor who manages their subsidized child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, to qualify for state-subsidized child care, a family must earn 85% or less of the state median household income. Those who earn less than 40% of that amount pay nothing for child care. Families earning between 40% and 85% of the state median income pay \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/CDSS_Famfeeschedule_SubChildCare_FY2022-23.pdf\">child care fees on a sliding scale\u003c/a> that could be as much as 10% of their household income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, a family earning $50,000 a year would pay $175 a month in family fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pandemic put a spotlight on the child care challenges facing families with the lowest incomes, who got hit hardest by COVID-19. Many worked service jobs that were frozen or eliminated, or worked essential jobs they were required to do in person. Their circumstances drove state officials to waive the fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Social Services, which oversees the state’s subsidized child care program, declined a request for an interview and only responded to questions via email. Spokesperson Scott Murray wrote that more than 26,000 families in various child care assistance programs “may have benefited from family fee waivers in the 2021-22 fiscal year.” He said the agency estimates about $88 million in fees will be waived in this fiscal year, which runs through June 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928091\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11928091\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/09222022_MarisolRosales_CM_PU_15-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A Latina woman helps her two small kids out of the car, one of the kids is kissing her on the cheek as the other gets out.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/09222022_MarisolRosales_CM_PU_15-CM-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/09222022_MarisolRosales_CM_PU_15-CM-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/09222022_MarisolRosales_CM_PU_15-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/09222022_MarisolRosales_CM_PU_15-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/09222022_MarisolRosales_CM_PU_15-CM-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marisol Rosales and her children go out for dinner in Los Angeles on Sept. 22, 2022. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The family fees were first established in 1998, Murray wrote, and are based on a federal requirement for programs funded by the Child Care and Development Fund, a federal grant program that funds child care nationwide. The \u003ca href=\"https://childcareta.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/public/family_co-payment_brief_0.pdf#:~:text=While%20the%20definition%20did%20not%20change%2C%20the%20Administration,access%20section%20of%20the%20CCDF%20Final%203%20Rule.\">law allows states to set their own fees\u003c/a> and determine the sliding scale for families, but it also outlines how fees “must be affordable and not be a barrier to families receiving assistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A legislative analysis of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB92\">the bill that would have permanently waived the fees\u003c/a> found that eliminating the fees for some families and decreasing the fees for others would cost $136 million a year. A 2021 study by the \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/california-families-pay-high-price-for-subsidized-child-care/\">California Budget and Policy Center\u003c/a> found that the state collects about $68 million annually in child care fees from families with low and moderate incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July of 2020 the state started \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/cd/ci/mb2019a.asp\">waiving the fees\u003c/a> for some families and eventually agreed to offer waivers to all families for the rest of that fiscal year as part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.calhr.ca.gov/Documents/2021.04.20%20COVID%20Relief%20Agreement.pdf\">its agreement with the Child Care Providers United union\u003c/a>. In 2021, the state and the union again agreed that waivers would continue through June of 2022. This summer the state budgeted $136 million to \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/Additional-Resources/Fiscal-and-Financial-Information/Local-Assistance-Estimates/2022/2022-May-Revision-CCD-Tab.pdf\">extend the waivers\u003c/a> for all families one more year, through June 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The benefits of the waiver have been felt by families across the state, said Mary Ignatius, a statewide organizer at Parent Voices, a grassroots organization focused on child care accessibility and affordability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the rising costs of just about everything and inflation, and the fact that the child tax credit expired at the federal level, these dollars came at a time of critical importance,” Ignatius said. “Families have been reducing debt, eliminating predatory credit cards, raising credit scores, going back to school full-time … paying down utility bills that were in delinquency, just paying rent and putting their kids in extracurricular activities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, by San Bernardino Assemblymember Eloise Gómez Reyes, would have \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB92\">ended fees\u003c/a> for all families that earn below 75% of the state median income and created a sliding scale for those who earn between 75% and 85%. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Newsom said the bill’s cost was prohibitive, writing in \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/AB-92-VETO-message.pdf?emrc=fee16d\">his veto message for this bill\u003c/a> and several others that state revenue is expected to decrease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates were critical, saying Newsom does not understand the struggle of families that need child care to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom started his tenure as governor with promises to help families with child care costs and access. Since then, his administration has budgeted for more subsidized child care slots and has led an expansion of transitional kindergarten. Despite this, advocates say the state is still not doing enough for child care providers and struggling families with young children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has been some progress made on child care, but the significant reform and expansion that the governor actually promised and signaled in his first budget address hasn’t been there,” said Chris Hoene, executive director of the California Budget and Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the biggest issues that have gone unattended are the lack of child care workers and the low pay rate for those workers. Without these workers, parents struggle to find care, even if they are approved for a subsidy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are an individual with lower income and you are trying to access subsidized child care, the fees are a barrier,” Hoene said. “And if you can afford the fees, then the next barrier is finding a provider.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill Newsom vetoed was popular in the Legislature, where it passed with no dissenting votes, and had strong support from parent and child care advocates. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB92\">No opposition was filed against the bill\u003c/a>, according to the Assembly analysis. That’s why Reyes and advocates plan to use the next eight months to try again through the budget process or another bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Rosales, the child care fee waiver has given her and her husband a chance to catch up financially. With that $400 a month savings, she got caught up on utility bills and paid off a student loan. Most exciting for her: paying for football for her sons and folklorico dance lessons for her daughters and herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Learning the traditional Mexican dance was a childhood dream her family could never afford. But this month Rosales dropped the class for herself to start saving money for child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m already stressing out about the $400 payment that is coming back next year and already trying to cut back on expenses,” she said. “It’s very upsetting. After football season I’m not going to enroll my boys in anything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ignatius, of Parent Voices, said eliminating the fees is critical for the survival of families already living paycheck to paycheck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Real cost pressures are what families are facing every single day,” she said. “Scraping together money for these fees instead of spending it on food, on housing, on activities for their children, for bills, for paying down debt — that’s financial pressure. What the state is experiencing pales in comparison.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928090\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11928090\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/20220926_CalMatters_Micaela_Mota_ML_0119-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A Latina woman in her 30s looks at the camera while standing in front of a white house.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/20220926_CalMatters_Micaela_Mota_ML_0119-CM-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/20220926_CalMatters_Micaela_Mota_ML_0119-CM-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/20220926_CalMatters_Micaela_Mota_ML_0119-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/20220926_CalMatters_Micaela_Mota_ML_0119-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/20220926_CalMatters_Micaela_Mota_ML_0119-CM-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/20220926_CalMatters_Micaela_Mota_ML_0119-CM-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Micaela Mota received a $277 subsidized child care fee waiver from the state. With the waiver set to expire next year, she doesn’t know how she’ll make ends meet. \u003ccite>(Marissa Leshnov/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richmond mom Micaela Mota has used her $277 in monthly fee savings to pay student loans and PG&E bills and to enroll her son in baseball and swim lessons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before that it was, ‘Do I pay PG&E or do I pay for child care?’ and if I don’t pay for child care, how am I able to work?” she said. “It’s this or that in order to move forward to succeed in life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A school psychologist, she said the fee waiver helped her finish her intern year and her graduate degree. She was also able to stop driving for Uber on Friday and Saturday nights and spent that time with her son instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The governor could have been more graceful in what he could provide for us,” Mota said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Millions of children are at operations that are completely unlicensed.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doug Forbes and his late wife Elena Matyas didn’t know this when they dropped their daughter Roxie off at the Summerkids camp in Altadena one morning in June of 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than an hour later they were racing toward the same hospital in Pasadena where Roxie was born. Their daughter had drowned in the camp pool. She was 6 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only as the couple sought answers about her final minutes of life did they discover the lack of oversight for children’s day camps in California. They filed an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/ForbesVSummerkidsLawsuit.pdf\">ongoing lawsuit against the camp for wrongful death\u003c/a> and began advocating for state officials to mandate regulations. 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Many also offer before and after care to accommodate parents’ work schedules.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-regulations-proposed\">Regulations proposed\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At the end of May, the state Assembly passed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1737\">Assembly Bill 1737\u003c/a> to create some oversight for day camps — legislation carried by Pasadena Democratic Assemblymember Chris Holden in response to what happened to Roxie. Its fate is now in the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California can’t have a group of “children who are susceptible to great bodily injury and potential death,” Holden said. “It would be totally irresponsible for us to continue operating this way as a state knowing what we know and the great harm that has happened to children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is one of about a dozen states that do not regulate day camps, according to Holden’s office. Most states, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.health.ny.gov/publications/3601/\">New York\u003c/a>, have regulations in place and some cities require camp operators to attend \u003ca href=\"https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/about/healthcode/health-code-article48.pdf\">city-run orientations\u003c/a> and follow extensive rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holden’s bill would require all day camps to register with the state Department of Social Services, conduct background checks for all staff and require staff be trained as “mandated reporters,” people legally required to report suspicions of abuse. It would also require non-government camps with certain activities like ziplining, archery, river rafting and riflery to submit their operational and emergency plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Assemblymember Chris Holden\"]‘It’s very complicated trying to find who will be the regulator of this. Everybody says this needs to happen but no one wants to take hold of it.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the bill, the Department of Social Services would also conduct random, unannounced inspections of all children’s camps annually. The bill exempts government-run camps from most requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the proposal places oversight responsibility with the California Department of Social Services, which oversees child care throughout California. Originally, oversight of day camps was going to fall under the Department of Public Health but that was changed last week. Holden said neither agency wants to take this on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both agencies refused requests for interviews. In email responses, both departments said they don’t oversee day camps because day camps are not defined in state statute. State law only defines “\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=HSC&division=13.&title=&part=2.4.&chapter=&article=\">organized camps\u003c/a>,” which are overnight camps where kids stay five nights or more. These fall under the purview of the state Department of Public Health, which leaves oversight to local counties. The state does not require the counties to report anything about the camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally, Holden’s bill included licensing, regular inspections and a designated health supervisor. Those requirements were removed from the bill after lobbying by camp advocates and organizations representing county officials, as well as after meetings with the state departments of Public Health and Social Services. Now, the bill includes registration, random inspections, background checks for all staff and, depending on the type of activities a camp offers, the submission of operational and emergency plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very complicated trying to find who will be the regulator of this,” Holden said. “Everybody says this needs to happen but no one wants to take hold of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holden said he intends to try to strengthen the law in future years if this bill is enacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Roxie drowned, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/RoxieForbes_SheriffsIncident-Report.pdf\">reports show that the lifeguards who were poolside didn’t see her\u003c/a> until another camp counselor outside the pool area yelled at them that Roxie was floating face down in the shallow end of the pool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family’s lawsuit alleges that the camp was negligent and that the camp’s lifeguards were not trained properly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We both jumped in the car that morning with her, went to camp, kissed her on the lips, said ‘Goodbye, I love you sweetheart.’ And boom, she’s gone,” Forbes said. “A six-year-old was left in a pool in need of help and nobody helped her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/ForbsVSummerkids_ResponsefromCamp.pdf\">response to the lawsuit\u003c/a>, the camp argues that none of the actions that day were “performed with the requisite malice, oppression, or fraud” for the camp to pay punitive damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are no regulations for day camps the state has extensive regulations for child care facilities. At times, the distinction between the two types of businesses is not clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Roxie’s death, the Department of Social Services received two unrelated complaints that the Summerkids camp was operating as an unlicensed child care facility. The agency inspected the camp, determined it was operating an illegal child care program and cited the owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More on child care\" tag=\"child-care\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state attorney general’s office \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/DSSvSummerkidsLawsuit.pdf\">filed a lawsuit against the camp\u003c/a> on behalf of Social Services. It alleges the camp fits the definition of a child care and does not fall under any of the regulatory exclusions, which include health care facilities, cooperative agreements between parents, and public recreation programs. Neither Social Services nor the attorney general’s office would comment on the case, which is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the lawsuit, \u003ca href=\"https://www.summerkids.net/forms\">Summerkids\u003c/a> is still operating and opened this week for summer camp. The Department of Social Services had asked a judge to shut it down as part of the ongoing lawsuit, but said its request was rejected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Summerkids camp owners are declining interviews because of the pending litigation, said attorney Steve Madison, who is representing the owners in the attorney general’s lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Summerkids very much denies that it was negligent in any way or caused the tragic death of Roxie,” said Madison, who is also a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofpasadena.net/district6/bio/\">member of the Pasadena city council\u003c/a>. He added that the camp maintains it “paid for the appropriate CPR training” for staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the camp is not a day care facility and never has been. Madison said day care sites are usually indoors and required to have a certain number of kids per square footage and are staffed by certified teachers. Summerkids is held outdoors and is staffed by college kids and alumni campers, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are numerous day camps in California that are not licensed as day care facilities under the statute that the AG has sued on,” Madison said. “They seem to be saying now that to be a recreational day camp you have to become this square peg in a round hole and apply to be a licensed day care facility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law defines child care as providing “nonmedical care to children under 18 years of age in need of personal services, supervision, or assistance essential for sustaining the activities of daily living or for the protection of the individual on less than a 24-hour basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Social Service would not provide a more detailed description of the differences and whether differences have to do with the age of the children, the activities, the hours of the program or how parents view camps for their children. However, in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/child-care-licensing/resources-for-parents\">video on the agency’s website\u003c/a> about understanding licensed and unlicensed care, a narrator explains that one of the exempt groups from child care licensing is “public and non-profit programs designed to provide recreation on a part-time basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Assemblymember Chris Holden\"]‘It would be totally irresponsible for us to continue operating this way as a state knowing what we know and the great harm that has happened to children.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cathy Barankin, executive director of the California Collaboration for Youth, said she believes there is a vast difference between child care and day camps. Her organization represents the American Camp Association, Girl and Boy Scouts, and the Western Association of Independent Camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barankin said child care facilities operate during the school year, focus on child development and taking care of kids while parents are working, and are conducted mainly indoors by teachers. Day camps, she said, usually happen when kids are out of school, emphasize outdoor activities and are led by camp counselors who are usually college students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Stillson, president of the Western Association of Independent Camps and a camp operator in Los Angeles County, said the differences are also based on the activities of the camp and the duration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, there is not much clarity from the oversight bodies,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within weeks of Roxie’s death, her parents started the \u003ca href=\"https://www.meowmeowfoundation.org/\">Meow Meow Foundation\u003c/a>, named after Roxie’s favorite stuffed animal. The mission: to increase awareness about drowning prevention and improve day camp safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The foundation recently pulled its support from Holden’s bill because it no longer requires licensing and regular inspections, and allows for the American Camp Association to potentially be involved in how day camps report to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the second time the foundation and the family have withdrawn support for similar proposed regulations — the same thing happened two years ago after a bill was watered down and shelved by its author.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forbes encourages parents to be wary of camps and ask questions. Roxie was born with a rare autoimmune disorder that kept her parents vigilant about her safety. So, he said, when they selected Summerkids, they asked a lot of questions about the protocols and workings of the camp — assuming state licensing and oversight was required.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-critics-of-proposed-day-camp-regulations\">Critics of proposed day camp regulations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some camp operators say they welcome safety regulations but are opposed to the current proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to be regulated to make sure as an industry that we are able to provide the safest programs for children,” said Stillson, executive director of Valley Trails Summer day camp in Castaic and Tarzana. “Right now anyone who wants to set up a camp and call themselves a camp can do it, and no one is out there to tell them they can’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, Stillson vehemently opposes the bill. He believes the Department of Social Services is not the right agency to oversee day camps, that the bill is too broad and that it should include city- and government-run camps, which serve thousands of children each summer, and that the state should recognize accreditation by the American Camp Association\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Collaboration for Youth also opposes the bill, saying it is too broad and onerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Day camps should be narrowly defined and overseen, not open to every single program that services children in the entire state,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Stillson and Barankin say camps belong under the purview of Public Health, which already oversees and inspects “organized camps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"President Mike Stillson, Western Association of Independent Camps\"]‘Right now anyone who wants to set up a camp and call themselves a camp can do it, and no one is out there to tell them they can’t.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forbes is still watching the bill closely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His wife, Elena Matyas will not see the work the foundation has been doing lead to meaningful change. In March, she died after a second bout with breast cancer, Forbes said — adding that he believes his wife was more susceptible to a recurrence because of her intense grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now he lives alone in the home the couple had once been renovating with their daughter in mind. Roxie would be 10 this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live with ghosts. The silence is deafening,” said Forbes, as the family pool glistened unused beyond double glass sliding doors off the dining room. “What I do every day is a constant reminder of despair, but I have to do this work and I don’t want to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days after Roxie died, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health inspected the pool at the camp and found nine violations. It shut the pool down until those violations were fixed. Counties do oversee public pools but do not regulate day camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If (they) would have gone out to inspect Summerkids’ pool before the camp season started, my daughter may be alive right now,” Forbes said. “We must manage each day knowing our little girl’s death could and should have been prevented.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madison, Summerkids’ attorney, said that the camp tried to get a county permit after Roxie died, but it is exempt from licensing because it is not considered an organized camp. That may change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to create an ordinance that would regulate both day and overnight camps. At the end of June, the board is expected to approve the detailed regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties are Forbes’ new focus, given the obstacles to strict statewide legislation. He’s got a list of California counties and he’s working his way through it, starting with the most populous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The camp world is the wild, wild west,” Forbes said. “They want the kids to let loose, but there are consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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These experiences — including violence, abuse or neglect — have been connected to chronic illnesses later in life, and to death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=mindshift_59313 label='Children's Anxiety Screening']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are very cute and adorable so people don’t see any needs besides feeding and clothing them at this age,” said Lishaun Francis, director of behavioral health for Children Now. “Because they can’t speak about their needs, they can’t say, ‘This is making me sad,’ or, ‘This is not a healthy attachment relationship.’ They can’t express themselves so we take for granted what they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children Now, along with more than 400 organizations, sent a letter to Newsom asking for $250 million over four years to fund organizations that provide mental health support for mainly lower-income infants and toddlers and their families. Advocates say providing support services early helps prevent children from experiencing adverse events, and if they have gone through trauma already it can help them heal and process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money also would support training for child care providers and other caregivers to ensure they have the skills to help prevent traumatic experiences. 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"content": "\u003cp>For Tonya Muhammad, who runs the Lil Critters family day care in Hawthorne, spring of 2020 was, in a word, “horrible.” The early rush on cleaning supplies meant that she and her husband had to criss-cross Los Angeles to find disinfectant, sourcing bottles of Lysol from a dental supply company and aloe vera from a local nursery to make homemade hand sanitizer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that wasn’t the worst of it. Muhammad’s assistant left, fearing for the health of her grandmother, whom she lived with. That was in March of 2020, and Muhammad hasn’t been able to find a replacement since, despite posting the job on Indeed and Facebook Jobs and at a nearby community college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve even paid for fingerprints for a couple [of applicants] and then there’s just no follow-up,” said Muhammad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the watchful eyes of a second adult, she’s had to reduce the number of kids she looks after from 14 to 6, and has gone from being a 24-hour day care to operating from 6 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. She estimates that her income from the day care has fallen by more than half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California lost about 27,800 child care workers between February and April of 2020 — or roughly a third of its workforce — according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. From then through September of 2021, about 19,600 have come back. 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And that system has failed miserably, says Elena Montoya, a senior research and policy associate at UC Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Child Care Employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The current [labor] shortage is a result of placing the burden of paying for child care on parents, rather than acknowledging that child care is a public good,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://infogram.com/sept-incl-childcare-workforce-size-1hxr4zxgz08oo6y\" title=\"sept incl childcare workforce size\" width=\"800\" height=\"745\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A pandemic was the last thing child care providers needed. Day care centers weren’t sure what the COVID-19 rules would be for them and were struggling to secure protective gear, said Cecilia Rojas, resource and referral manager at Crystal Stairs, a Los Angeles-based organization that helps families find child care. Some child care workers quit to take care of their own school-aged children, who were suddenly stuck at home. Others left because they were worried about being exposed to the virus. Parents pulled their kids out of day care, leading to budget shortfalls and closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal and state relief funds did help keep child care facilities open. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.naeyc.org/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/user-74/naeyc_survey_statedatawithquotes_sep2021.pdf\">survey\u003c/a> of early childhood educators conducted by the National Association for the Education of Young Children in early summer found that nearly half of the 1,200 respondents in California said they would have had to close were it not for the aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the federal funds, said Montoya, “as important and terrific as they are, they really are a short-term stopgap to avoid the total collapse of the system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California made a large\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/07/09/california-roars-back-governor-newsom-signs-historic-education-package-to-reimagine-public-schools/\"> investment in transitional kindergarten\u003c/a> in July, committing $2.7 billion to expand free transitional kindergarten to all 4-year-olds across the state by the school year that starts in 2025. Proponents consider that a game changer; some \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11893791/why-californias-universal-transitional-kindergarten-plan-poses-a-threat-to-some-early-childhood-ed-providers\">child care operators fear it could undercut their business model\u003c/a> as they lose 4-year-olds whose tuition helps cover the higher cost of caring for infants.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Elena Montoya, a senior research and policy associate\"]'The current [labor] shortage is a result of placing the burden of paying for child care on parents, rather than acknowledging that child care is a public good.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, lots of child care facilities can’t fill their job openings. “Programs are actually having to close for the day or for the week, and it’s not because they don’t have children to serve,” said Nina Buthee, executive director of EveryChild California, an organization that supports early childhood educators. It’s because they’re short-staffed, she said. Buthee says it’s the first time she’s heard of that happening in the 20 years she’s been working on child care issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://infogram.com/childcare-work-pay-by-age-ca-1h7k230xw1w9g2x\" title=\"sept incl childcare workforce size\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child care workers earn lower wages than pre-K teachers, who in turn make less than kindergarten teachers, according to data from the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at Berkeley. There are several factors driving the pay gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One is that kindergarten teachers are required to have bachelor’s degrees, whereas child care providers typically are not. But there are less quantifiable factors, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve undervalued and underpaid caregiving” said Kristin Schumacher, a senior policy analyst at the California Budget and Policy Center, “for as long as it’s been a career choice, and this has sexist and racist roots that can be traced back to slavery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lower pay for child care workers also creates a racial pay disparity among early childhood educators, says Montoya, since Black and Latino women are more likely to work with infants and toddlers than their white peers, who are more likely to be preschool or kindergarten teachers. Researchers at the Berkeley center calculated that nationally, Black early educators are paid on average $0.78 less per hour than their white counterparts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wages are so low that many child care workers have side gigs or second jobs to make ends meet. Muhammad, the owner of Lil Critters, wrote a book about child care and works as a consultant, advising other providers. She now makes about half of her income from those other endeavors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tonia McMillian, who owns a family child care business in Bellflower and was active in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2019/10/childcare-workers/\">the effort to unionize child care workers\u003c/a>, also teaches CPR classes and runs a catering business. At one point, she said, she was paying her staff minimum wage but only making $4.15 per hour herself, after covering all the costs of running the business. “Something [is] wrong with that picture,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The low wages also mean that child care workers end up on public assistance. In 2018, the Berkeley center found that \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/2018-Index-California.pdf\">58% of child care workers families’ in California are on one or more public assistance programs\u003c/a>, like CalFresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way or the other, there’s public money going to child care workers, says Gemma DiMatteo, research director for California Child Care Resource and Referral Network. “It’s through these social support services, or you could just fund the child care and make sure that the staff is getting paid adequately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://infogram.com/childcare-v-all-workers-wages-1ho16vomv9j384n\" title=\"sept incl childcare workforce size\" width=\"800\" height=\"631\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One factor holding down child care providers’ low wages: the state reimbursement rate for care for lower- and moderate-income families. The state uses two rates, depending on the subsidy program. One, known as the regional market rate, is used to subsidize care for parents who have lower incomes and are working or seeking employment. That rate isn’t based on what it costs to provide high-quality child care and pay staff well — it’s based on a state study of what child care providers in different regions charge families. But the market rate isn’t necessarily representative of how much child care providers actually need; it reflects what they think they can reasonably charge parents who are already, in many cases, \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/publication/breaking-the-silence-on-early-child-care-and-education-costs-a-values-based-budget-for-children-parents-and-teachers-in-california/\">paying more than they can afford\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regional market rate also is often out-of-date. The state conducts the market analysis every couple of years; right now, California is reimbursing some child care providers based on numbers from 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muhammad said that for her, even that 15% increase from the home-based child care providers union won't make a meaningful difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child care has been underfunded for so long, said Buthee of EveryChild California, that rate increases need to be huge to make a difference. Making the system whole in California would cost about a billion dollars, she continued. “When you look at the budget, it’s like, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa, that’s too much money,’” she said, but “that’s just how much it costs to catch up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894532\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1554px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-01-at-11.21.01-AM-e1635791098779.png\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11894532 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-01-at-11.21.01-AM-e1635791098779.png\" alt=\"A 'mud kitchen' for children at Tonya Muhammad's day care.\" width=\"1554\" height=\"1032\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 'mud kitchen' for children at Tonya Muhammad's day care in Hawthorne on Oct. 28, 2021. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Harmit Pabla, who owns Genius Kids, a child care center in Sacramento County that serves more than 100 kids, has had six of his staff of 16 leave over the last year. Three left for reasons directly related to the pandemic and three found different jobs, including at Amazon and Walmart distribution centers. Those companies offered slightly better benefits, said Pabla. As large corporations, they have more buying power to negotiate lower rates with insurance companies. “We can’t compete with the big boys,” Pabla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s getting inquiries from parents about openings, but he said he’s not accepting more children because he can’t find staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across California, 77% of early childhood educators surveyed \u003ca href=\"https://www.naeyc.org/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/user-74/naeyc_survey_statedatawithquotes_sep2021.pdf\">identify wages as the main recruitment challenge\u003c/a>. But unlike other industries, where business owners can cover increasing wages by raising prices, lots of child care owners know their customers — parents — can’t afford to pay more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While kids are heading back to in-person school and the coronavirus delta variant appears to be in decline, California’s child care system is not in the clear. The survey by the National Association for the Education of Young Children found that 47% of respondents in California were considering leaving their program or closing their home child care location within the next year.[aside postID=news_11892267,news_11892891,news_11893791 label='Related Posts']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be especially true for workers who had just gotten their start before the virus made the job more risky and complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Will we lose those excited new educators who could have gone on to become really seasoned, amazing contributors to the field?” asked Krista Olson, a research and policy associate at the Berkeley Center for the Study of Child Care Employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McMillian, who is 62, hopes to retire from child care soon. “It’s extremely hard to walk away, especially if you don’t have a nest egg,” she said. She’s started working as a child care consultant, and just signed a lease on space to open a sports bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muhammad is planning her exit, too. Once she winds down her child care business, she’ll be relying on her other gigs: her consulting, a child care course and book she wrote, a hotline she runs to answer providers’ questions, speaking gigs and more. It will take some time to make sure those projects bring in enough steady income. “I wish it was yesterday,” she said, “but I’m giving myself a year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For Tonya Muhammad, who runs the Lil Critters family day care in Hawthorne, spring of 2020 was, in a word, “horrible.” The early rush on cleaning supplies meant that she and her husband had to criss-cross Los Angeles to find disinfectant, sourcing bottles of Lysol from a dental supply company and aloe vera from a local nursery to make homemade hand sanitizer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that wasn’t the worst of it. Muhammad’s assistant left, fearing for the health of her grandmother, whom she lived with. That was in March of 2020, and Muhammad hasn’t been able to find a replacement since, despite posting the job on Indeed and Facebook Jobs and at a nearby community college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve even paid for fingerprints for a couple [of applicants] and then there’s just no follow-up,” said Muhammad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the watchful eyes of a second adult, she’s had to reduce the number of kids she looks after from 14 to 6, and has gone from being a 24-hour day care to operating from 6 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. She estimates that her income from the day care has fallen by more than half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California lost about 27,800 child care workers between February and April of 2020 — or roughly a third of its workforce — according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. From then through September of 2021, about 19,600 have come back. Still, the workforce is about 10% smaller than it was prepandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the pandemic, however, there wasn’t enough child care available in California to meet families’ needs. Labor issues that long bubbled below the surface are now driving acute staffing shortages: low pay, long hours and limited benefits. That makes it hard to earn a living in an industry that supports the rest of the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child care providers find themselves stretching across a gap between what parents are able to afford and the wages they need to offer to attract and retain staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state of California plays a role here: It reimburses some child care providers who care for lower- and moderate-income families, at rates advocates argue have long been too low. In June, a new union representing home child care providers who work with families receiving state subsidies \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/education/child-care-providers-united-reach-first-labor-contract-california-providers\">won workers a 15% raise from the state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, most Californian child care is provided through the private market. And that system has failed miserably, says Elena Montoya, a senior research and policy associate at UC Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Child Care Employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The current [labor] shortage is a result of placing the burden of paying for child care on parents, rather than acknowledging that child care is a public good,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://infogram.com/sept-incl-childcare-workforce-size-1hxr4zxgz08oo6y\" title=\"sept incl childcare workforce size\" width=\"800\" height=\"745\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A pandemic was the last thing child care providers needed. Day care centers weren’t sure what the COVID-19 rules would be for them and were struggling to secure protective gear, said Cecilia Rojas, resource and referral manager at Crystal Stairs, a Los Angeles-based organization that helps families find child care. Some child care workers quit to take care of their own school-aged children, who were suddenly stuck at home. Others left because they were worried about being exposed to the virus. Parents pulled their kids out of day care, leading to budget shortfalls and closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal and state relief funds did help keep child care facilities open. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.naeyc.org/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/user-74/naeyc_survey_statedatawithquotes_sep2021.pdf\">survey\u003c/a> of early childhood educators conducted by the National Association for the Education of Young Children in early summer found that nearly half of the 1,200 respondents in California said they would have had to close were it not for the aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the federal funds, said Montoya, “as important and terrific as they are, they really are a short-term stopgap to avoid the total collapse of the system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California made a large\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/07/09/california-roars-back-governor-newsom-signs-historic-education-package-to-reimagine-public-schools/\"> investment in transitional kindergarten\u003c/a> in July, committing $2.7 billion to expand free transitional kindergarten to all 4-year-olds across the state by the school year that starts in 2025. Proponents consider that a game changer; some \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11893791/why-californias-universal-transitional-kindergarten-plan-poses-a-threat-to-some-early-childhood-ed-providers\">child care operators fear it could undercut their business model\u003c/a> as they lose 4-year-olds whose tuition helps cover the higher cost of caring for infants.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, lots of child care facilities can’t fill their job openings. “Programs are actually having to close for the day or for the week, and it’s not because they don’t have children to serve,” said Nina Buthee, executive director of EveryChild California, an organization that supports early childhood educators. It’s because they’re short-staffed, she said. Buthee says it’s the first time she’s heard of that happening in the 20 years she’s been working on child care issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://infogram.com/childcare-work-pay-by-age-ca-1h7k230xw1w9g2x\" title=\"sept incl childcare workforce size\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child care workers earn lower wages than pre-K teachers, who in turn make less than kindergarten teachers, according to data from the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at Berkeley. There are several factors driving the pay gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One is that kindergarten teachers are required to have bachelor’s degrees, whereas child care providers typically are not. But there are less quantifiable factors, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve undervalued and underpaid caregiving” said Kristin Schumacher, a senior policy analyst at the California Budget and Policy Center, “for as long as it’s been a career choice, and this has sexist and racist roots that can be traced back to slavery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lower pay for child care workers also creates a racial pay disparity among early childhood educators, says Montoya, since Black and Latino women are more likely to work with infants and toddlers than their white peers, who are more likely to be preschool or kindergarten teachers. Researchers at the Berkeley center calculated that nationally, Black early educators are paid on average $0.78 less per hour than their white counterparts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wages are so low that many child care workers have side gigs or second jobs to make ends meet. Muhammad, the owner of Lil Critters, wrote a book about child care and works as a consultant, advising other providers. She now makes about half of her income from those other endeavors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tonia McMillian, who owns a family child care business in Bellflower and was active in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2019/10/childcare-workers/\">the effort to unionize child care workers\u003c/a>, also teaches CPR classes and runs a catering business. At one point, she said, she was paying her staff minimum wage but only making $4.15 per hour herself, after covering all the costs of running the business. “Something [is] wrong with that picture,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The low wages also mean that child care workers end up on public assistance. In 2018, the Berkeley center found that \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/2018-Index-California.pdf\">58% of child care workers families’ in California are on one or more public assistance programs\u003c/a>, like CalFresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way or the other, there’s public money going to child care workers, says Gemma DiMatteo, research director for California Child Care Resource and Referral Network. “It’s through these social support services, or you could just fund the child care and make sure that the staff is getting paid adequately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://infogram.com/childcare-v-all-workers-wages-1ho16vomv9j384n\" title=\"sept incl childcare workforce size\" width=\"800\" height=\"631\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One factor holding down child care providers’ low wages: the state reimbursement rate for care for lower- and moderate-income families. The state uses two rates, depending on the subsidy program. One, known as the regional market rate, is used to subsidize care for parents who have lower incomes and are working or seeking employment. That rate isn’t based on what it costs to provide high-quality child care and pay staff well — it’s based on a state study of what child care providers in different regions charge families. But the market rate isn’t necessarily representative of how much child care providers actually need; it reflects what they think they can reasonably charge parents who are already, in many cases, \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/publication/breaking-the-silence-on-early-child-care-and-education-costs-a-values-based-budget-for-children-parents-and-teachers-in-california/\">paying more than they can afford\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regional market rate also is often out-of-date. The state conducts the market analysis every couple of years; right now, California is reimbursing some child care providers based on numbers from 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muhammad said that for her, even that 15% increase from the home-based child care providers union won't make a meaningful difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child care has been underfunded for so long, said Buthee of EveryChild California, that rate increases need to be huge to make a difference. Making the system whole in California would cost about a billion dollars, she continued. “When you look at the budget, it’s like, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa, that’s too much money,’” she said, but “that’s just how much it costs to catch up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894532\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1554px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-01-at-11.21.01-AM-e1635791098779.png\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11894532 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-01-at-11.21.01-AM-e1635791098779.png\" alt=\"A 'mud kitchen' for children at Tonya Muhammad's day care.\" width=\"1554\" height=\"1032\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 'mud kitchen' for children at Tonya Muhammad's day care in Hawthorne on Oct. 28, 2021. \u003ccite>(Zaydee Sanchez/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Harmit Pabla, who owns Genius Kids, a child care center in Sacramento County that serves more than 100 kids, has had six of his staff of 16 leave over the last year. Three left for reasons directly related to the pandemic and three found different jobs, including at Amazon and Walmart distribution centers. Those companies offered slightly better benefits, said Pabla. As large corporations, they have more buying power to negotiate lower rates with insurance companies. “We can’t compete with the big boys,” Pabla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s getting inquiries from parents about openings, but he said he’s not accepting more children because he can’t find staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across California, 77% of early childhood educators surveyed \u003ca href=\"https://www.naeyc.org/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/user-74/naeyc_survey_statedatawithquotes_sep2021.pdf\">identify wages as the main recruitment challenge\u003c/a>. But unlike other industries, where business owners can cover increasing wages by raising prices, lots of child care owners know their customers — parents — can’t afford to pay more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While kids are heading back to in-person school and the coronavirus delta variant appears to be in decline, California’s child care system is not in the clear. The survey by the National Association for the Education of Young Children found that 47% of respondents in California were considering leaving their program or closing their home child care location within the next year.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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We had a system coming into the pandemic where we didn’t have enough child care available for families. It’s incredibly expensive for families, but that still doesn’t actually cover the full cost of what it takes to provide early care and education services. We’re relying on a market and the market doesn’t work. So what that means is the system gets subsidized on the backs of the people doing the work — with incredibly low wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The True Cost of Child Care\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Your center has done some research into the true cost of child care for very young children. Could you walk us through what those estimates showed?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lea Austin:\u003c/strong> If we were covering the full cost of early care and education in California on the low end, that’s about $30 billion a year for child care and early learning. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Gould and her co-authors suggested that lawmakers overhaul the child care system. They recommend funding professional development for early education teachers and paying them in line with what K-12 teachers make. Incorporating those changes, and others, would cost money. The report estimates a revamped system would cost between about $30 billion and $75 billion a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Letting the system continue as it is hurts everyone, Gould said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If teachers aren’t doing well, if they’re experiencing stress because of their low pay, then that’s going to factor into the quality (of care) that those children are getting,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Gould points out the early childhood workforce is largely made up of women, who she said are undervalued for the work they do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that there’s an undervaluing in terms of the teaching of young children. Undervaluing of what has been historically women’s work — historically women of color doing that work,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature is considering several bills aimed at improving the early child care system. The legislation includes an effort \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB378\">to let in-home providers unionize\u003c/a>, and requiring \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB123\">more training\u003c/a> for child care workers.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>There’s an overwhelming demand for child care in California but not enough people who provide it. The industry is notorious for offering low pay and long hours. Several bills pending in the Legislature seek to address these problems, including one that would let in-home providers unionize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a measure that longtime in-home provider Pat Alexander is passionate about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander runs \u003ca href=\"https://alexanderchildcare.webs.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alexander Preschool and Child Care\u003c/a> out of her home in Elk Grove (Sacramento County). On a recent morning, a group of 2-, 3- and 4-year-olds work on getting their wiggles out before breakfast. The kids alternate between dancing around and falling to the ground in time with “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the kids dance, Alexander, better known as Miss Pat, gets the food together in her small kitchen. When it’s time to eat, her husband, known as Mr. Ed, gets everyone settled at miniature tables and begins doling out waffles and sausages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11755259\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11755259\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/kids-breakfast-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Kids at Alexander Preschool and Child Care in Elk Grove eat breakfast.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kids at Alexander Preschool and Child Care in Elk Grove eat breakfast. \u003ccite>(Katie Orr/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s controlled chaos, but Alexander is used to it. She’s been in the child care business for a long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’ll be 49 years next month,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has not always been easy, but Alexander enjoys the work. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/102/childcare-facilities-type/table#fmt=260&loc=2,127,347,1763,331,348,336,171,321,345,357,332,324,369,358,362,360,337,327,364,356,217,353,328,354,323,352,320,339,334,365,343,330,367,344,355,366,368,265,349,361,4,273,59,370,326,333,322,341,338,350,342,329,325,359,351,363,340,335&tf=95&ch=222,223,224\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">She is one of more than 27,000 in-home child care providers in the state\u003c/a>. It’s far from a lucrative career. She and her husband watch a dozen kids. And, like all businesses, Alexander has to keep her rates competitive. Right now she charges about $600 a month per child. That means she and her husband make about $24,000 a year combined. She estimates they each work 55 hours a week, which comes out to $4.20 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that doesn’t count my before-hours or my after-hours,” she said. “This morning I was up at 6 o’clock getting ready for the kids to be here at 7. And then at night we’re putting things away and cleaning up, and the weekends grocery shopping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander, who will be 69 in August, was planning to retire next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I’m looking at 2025. Another extra five years,” she said. “The only thing I might change is, I might go down to a small group, so I can handle it alone. So my husband can kind of take it easy because his health is getting really bad. It’s harder for him all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hiring an assistant is out of the question because Alexander can’t afford to pay the state’s minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11755260\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11755260\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Pat Alexander, owner of Alexander Preschool and Child Care in Elk Grove and her husband Ed.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Miss.-Pat-and-Mr.-Ed-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pat Alexander, owner of Alexander Preschool and Child Care in Elk Grove, and her husband, Ed. \u003ccite>(Katie Orr/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After breakfast the children head outside to play in the backyard. Pat and Ed have transformed it into a mini-playground, complete with slides, water table and playhouse the kids are constantly repairing with their plastic tools. It was a big investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander does get some income from the state by taking care of kids who qualify for child care subsidies. But she says it can be frustrating dealing with the bureaucracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to limit myself on how many subsidy families I can take because it takes so long to get paid,” she said. “So I would work all of July, say, and it wouldn’t be till mid-August before I got paid for July. So I’m looking at six weeks of no pay there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that delay, the reimbursement rates offered by the state are often less than what Alexander charges for her service. 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She’s been in the child care business for a long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’ll be 49 years next month,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has not always been easy, but Alexander enjoys the work. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/102/childcare-facilities-type/table#fmt=260&loc=2,127,347,1763,331,348,336,171,321,345,357,332,324,369,358,362,360,337,327,364,356,217,353,328,354,323,352,320,339,334,365,343,330,367,344,355,366,368,265,349,361,4,273,59,370,326,333,322,341,338,350,342,329,325,359,351,363,340,335&tf=95&ch=222,223,224\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">She is one of more than 27,000 in-home child care providers in the state\u003c/a>. It’s far from a lucrative career. She and her husband watch a dozen kids. And, like all businesses, Alexander has to keep her rates competitive. Right now she charges about $600 a month per child. That means she and her husband make about $24,000 a year combined. 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