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The damage was the latest existential threat to La Bamba Preschool — a business Santillan started 16 years ago when she couldn’t find a Spanish-immersion program for her daughter in their Oceanview neighborhood. It survived a recession, a pandemic in which two of her longtime teachers quit and years of financial struggle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been times when I thought it was time to say goodbye to this beautiful program,” Santillan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But thanks to Baby Prop. C, a business tax to support San Francisco’s goal of providing early education and care for all of the city’s children, Santillan is starting to see some change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She received a $15,000 grant to install a water pump and repair some of the damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948785\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948785\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A teacher reads to children gathered around her.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Martha Guarnizo reads a book with her students in the back yard at La Bamba day care in San Francisco on April 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She also received stipends to boost her income — enough to allow her to hire a part-time assistant — and was able to access funding to build a structure in her back yard that will be used as a therapeutic room for kids who experience sensory overload. Since the pandemic, she’s seeing more kids with developmental delays due to social isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel I can afford to hire an extra staff so we can do that one-on-one work with the children that need it,” Santillan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, San Francisco voters narrowly approved a commercial rent tax to expand access to child care, particularly for lower- and middle-income families, and to help pay early educators a living wage. At the time, proponents argued for a dedicated funding stream for child care to help with waitlists \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/candidates/Universal_Child_Rent_Tax.pdf\">for subsidized care for children under the age of 4 (PDF)\u003c/a> and to cover pay raises for early educators, a third of whom were relying on public assistance programs to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep them in the workforce, the city intends to pay early educators \u003ca href=\"https://sfdec.org/mayor-breed-announces-landmark-pay-raise-initiative-for-early-educators-in-city-funded-programs/\">at least $28 per hour by 2025\u003c/a>. This far exceeds \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/workforce-index-2020/states/california/\">the $13.43 median wage for child care workers in California\u003c/a>, according to the latest data from the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948703\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948703\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A Latinx woman looks up at a boy as they stand in a yard with plants.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corey Santillan works with a student in the back yard at La Bamba day care in San Francisco on April 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taxpayer and business groups challenged the measure and held it up in the courts but funds collected under it began reaching families and providers last year. Around the same time, Mayor London Breed launched the Department of Early Childhood, dedicating $300 million annually to support the city’s goal of providing universal early care and education to all young children. The bulk of the revenue comes from the commercial tax, although that number will likely dip \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco-office-vacancy/3204043/#:~:text=%22The%20vacancy%20rate%20in%20San,commercial%20real%20estate%20firm%20CBRE.\">due to rising vacancy rates at downtown offices and retail spaces\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"The Benefits of Investing in Early Childhood Education and Care\" src=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/the-benefits-of-investing-in-early-childhood-educa/embed#?secret=2SEccoZXfv\" data-secret=\"2SEccoZXfv\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those funds \u003ca href=\"https://sfdec.org/decs-year-in-review/\">have increased wages for teachers and expanded access to child care\u003c/a>, putting San Francisco further along than the rest of the state in reforming the child care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, families making up to 110% of the San Francisco area’s median income — \u003ca href=\"https://sfdec.org/paying-for-ece/\">or up to $152,400 a year for a family of four\u003c/a> — can qualify for subsidized child care for their kids under age 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not some luxury that you can do without,” said Wei-min Wang, deputy director for the Department of Early Childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think at this point, almost every family, every parent, every caregiver knows that early education is essential to getting kids a leg up in terms of getting ready for school — and, by virtue of that, ready for life,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948712\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11948712 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023.jpg\" alt=\"A Latinx woman engaged in arts activity with two children, one boy and one girl.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Martha Guarnizo engages in an art activity with her students at La Bamba day care in San Francisco on April 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the rollout of Baby Prop. C, the waitlist for families eligible for subsidized care has gotten shorter — from the 2,000–3,000 range down to about 1,000, according to Wang — but there are lingering concerns about meeting the needs of families with babies and toddlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ability to provide subsidies for low-income families with infant and toddlers will take some time. The infrastructure needed will take time,” former Supervisor Norman Yee, who spearheaded the campaign for Baby Prop. C, told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most concern I have is the growing of the workforce,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because caring for infants and toddlers is a labor-intensive job that costs more than other types of child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the most expensive because ideally you’re in a situation where you have no more than three infants to each adult. Anything higher than that, I mean, you can just imagine … like having to care for four babies at one time,” Wang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='The True Cost of Child Care' tag='true-cost-of-child-care']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krystle Danridge-Pierson saw the acute demand when, a year ago, she opened Each One Teach One out of her home in the Bernal Heights neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The minute I opened, my waitlist filled with pregnant women trying to line up child care for the babies in their bellies,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danridge-Pierson said she received robust support from the San Francisco Children’s Council’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.childrenscouncil.org/for-child-care-programs/start-or-grow-your-business/\">Family Child Care Business Incubator program\u003c/a> to obtain a state license to open and grow her business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine months after opening, she was able to access city funding after meeting a set of high-quality standards. They include maintaining a safe and enriching environment, closely monitoring children’s development, communicating with parents about their children’s learning and keeping up with training to improve her skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also has to agree to serve lower- and middle-income parents and guardians like Keith Anderson, grandfather of a 2-year-old named Ajani — ensuring that they have access to a high-quality program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His growth in communication, his activities, the way he sings, the way he plays the piano,” Anderson said. “I can attribute that to Miss Krystle because she has a music session once a week on Fridays.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Katie Le-Blanc said she sends her 5-year-old son, Remo, to Santillan’s small program because it offers him the opportunity to learn Spanish and focuses on developing the whole child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s growing compassionate children, she’s teaching curious children and she’s teaching them things like social justice, environmentalism, art, dance, sports,” Le-Blanc said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Santillan and Danridge-Pierson are certified to teach in elementary schools, but instead they choose to dedicate themselves to early childhood education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948823\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948823\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman holds a small child up to her face while smiling. The child touches her face.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Krystle Danridge-Pierson, founder and director at Each One Teach One Child Care, holds a small child at the San Francisco day care facility on April 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The age group that I enjoy and love pretty much the most is the babies, the beginning of all of their educational journey,” Danridge-Pierson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The longer-term goal is to pay early educators the same salary as public school teachers so they can see a future in the profession, Wang said.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Narrowly passed in 2018, Baby Prop. C has expanded access to child care, particularly for lower- and middle-income families, and is helping pay early educators a living wage.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1683674099,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1304},"headData":{"title":"How a Local Tax Is Keeping Much-Needed Child Care in San Francisco Affordable | KQED","description":"Narrowly passed in 2018, Baby Prop. 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The damage was the latest existential threat to La Bamba Preschool — a business Santillan started 16 years ago when she couldn’t find a Spanish-immersion program for her daughter in their Oceanview neighborhood. It survived a recession, a pandemic in which two of her longtime teachers quit and years of financial struggle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been times when I thought it was time to say goodbye to this beautiful program,” Santillan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But thanks to Baby Prop. C, a business tax to support San Francisco’s goal of providing early education and care for all of the city’s children, Santillan is starting to see some change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She received a $15,000 grant to install a water pump and repair some of the damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948785\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948785\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A teacher reads to children gathered around her.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Martha Guarnizo reads a book with her students in the back yard at La Bamba day care in San Francisco on April 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She also received stipends to boost her income — enough to allow her to hire a part-time assistant — and was able to access funding to build a structure in her back yard that will be used as a therapeutic room for kids who experience sensory overload. Since the pandemic, she’s seeing more kids with developmental delays due to social isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel I can afford to hire an extra staff so we can do that one-on-one work with the children that need it,” Santillan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, San Francisco voters narrowly approved a commercial rent tax to expand access to child care, particularly for lower- and middle-income families, and to help pay early educators a living wage. At the time, proponents argued for a dedicated funding stream for child care to help with waitlists \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/candidates/Universal_Child_Rent_Tax.pdf\">for subsidized care for children under the age of 4 (PDF)\u003c/a> and to cover pay raises for early educators, a third of whom were relying on public assistance programs to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep them in the workforce, the city intends to pay early educators \u003ca href=\"https://sfdec.org/mayor-breed-announces-landmark-pay-raise-initiative-for-early-educators-in-city-funded-programs/\">at least $28 per hour by 2025\u003c/a>. This far exceeds \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/workforce-index-2020/states/california/\">the $13.43 median wage for child care workers in California\u003c/a>, according to the latest data from the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948703\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948703\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A Latinx woman looks up at a boy as they stand in a yard with plants.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corey Santillan works with a student in the back yard at La Bamba day care in San Francisco on April 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taxpayer and business groups challenged the measure and held it up in the courts but funds collected under it began reaching families and providers last year. Around the same time, Mayor London Breed launched the Department of Early Childhood, dedicating $300 million annually to support the city’s goal of providing universal early care and education to all young children. The bulk of the revenue comes from the commercial tax, although that number will likely dip \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco-office-vacancy/3204043/#:~:text=%22The%20vacancy%20rate%20in%20San,commercial%20real%20estate%20firm%20CBRE.\">due to rising vacancy rates at downtown offices and retail spaces\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"The Benefits of Investing in Early Childhood Education and Care\" src=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/the-benefits-of-investing-in-early-childhood-educa/embed#?secret=2SEccoZXfv\" data-secret=\"2SEccoZXfv\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those funds \u003ca href=\"https://sfdec.org/decs-year-in-review/\">have increased wages for teachers and expanded access to child care\u003c/a>, putting San Francisco further along than the rest of the state in reforming the child care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, families making up to 110% of the San Francisco area’s median income — \u003ca href=\"https://sfdec.org/paying-for-ece/\">or up to $152,400 a year for a family of four\u003c/a> — can qualify for subsidized child care for their kids under age 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not some luxury that you can do without,” said Wei-min Wang, deputy director for the Department of Early Childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think at this point, almost every family, every parent, every caregiver knows that early education is essential to getting kids a leg up in terms of getting ready for school — and, by virtue of that, ready for life,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948712\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11948712 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023.jpg\" alt=\"A Latinx woman engaged in arts activity with two children, one boy and one girl.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Martha Guarnizo engages in an art activity with her students at La Bamba day care in San Francisco on April 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the rollout of Baby Prop. C, the waitlist for families eligible for subsidized care has gotten shorter — from the 2,000–3,000 range down to about 1,000, according to Wang — but there are lingering concerns about meeting the needs of families with babies and toddlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ability to provide subsidies for low-income families with infant and toddlers will take some time. The infrastructure needed will take time,” former Supervisor Norman Yee, who spearheaded the campaign for Baby Prop. C, told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most concern I have is the growing of the workforce,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because caring for infants and toddlers is a labor-intensive job that costs more than other types of child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the most expensive because ideally you’re in a situation where you have no more than three infants to each adult. Anything higher than that, I mean, you can just imagine … like having to care for four babies at one time,” Wang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"The True Cost of Child Care ","tag":"true-cost-of-child-care"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krystle Danridge-Pierson saw the acute demand when, a year ago, she opened Each One Teach One out of her home in the Bernal Heights neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The minute I opened, my waitlist filled with pregnant women trying to line up child care for the babies in their bellies,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danridge-Pierson said she received robust support from the San Francisco Children’s Council’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.childrenscouncil.org/for-child-care-programs/start-or-grow-your-business/\">Family Child Care Business Incubator program\u003c/a> to obtain a state license to open and grow her business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine months after opening, she was able to access city funding after meeting a set of high-quality standards. They include maintaining a safe and enriching environment, closely monitoring children’s development, communicating with parents about their children’s learning and keeping up with training to improve her skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also has to agree to serve lower- and middle-income parents and guardians like Keith Anderson, grandfather of a 2-year-old named Ajani — ensuring that they have access to a high-quality program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His growth in communication, his activities, the way he sings, the way he plays the piano,” Anderson said. “I can attribute that to Miss Krystle because she has a music session once a week on Fridays.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Katie Le-Blanc said she sends her 5-year-old son, Remo, to Santillan’s small program because it offers him the opportunity to learn Spanish and focuses on developing the whole child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s growing compassionate children, she’s teaching curious children and she’s teaching them things like social justice, environmentalism, art, dance, sports,” Le-Blanc said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Santillan and Danridge-Pierson are certified to teach in elementary schools, but instead they choose to dedicate themselves to early childhood education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948823\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948823\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman holds a small child up to her face while smiling. The child touches her face.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Krystle Danridge-Pierson, founder and director at Each One Teach One Child Care, holds a small child at the San Francisco day care facility on April 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The age group that I enjoy and love pretty much the most is the babies, the beginning of all of their educational journey,” Danridge-Pierson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The longer-term goal is to pay early educators the same salary as public school teachers so they can see a future in the profession, Wang said.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11948690/business-tax-provides-crucial-funding-for-early-childhood-education-and-care-in-san-francisco","authors":["11829"],"categories":["news_31795","news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_32710","news_18538","news_32102","news_20013","news_17763","news_32709","news_32697"],"featImg":"news_11948817","label":"source_news_11948690"},"news_11948419":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11948419","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11948419","score":null,"sort":[1683238210000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"care-cant-wait-californias-child-care-workers-demand-better-funding-for-essential-services","title":"'Care Can't Wait': California's Child Care Workers Demand Better Funding for Essential Services","publishDate":1683238210,"format":"standard","headTitle":"‘Care Can’t Wait’: California’s Child Care Workers Demand Better Funding for Essential Services | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Every day, Annette Nicholson opens her door as early as 6 a.m. to welcome 10 kids into the child care business she runs out of her home in Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicholson lives on the north edge of town, where child care options are slim for working families. The parents who rely on her mostly work irregular hours, or need to drop off their kids early to commute long distances to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some leave babies as young as 6 weeks old with her. Some have even called her in tears, pleading with her to take care of a sick child because they can’t afford to miss work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the day, Nicholson reads to the preschool-age children, plays with them, watches over their naps and cooks eggs, oatmeal and other hot meals for everyone until the last child gets picked up around 8 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She works long hours, yet barely gets by. At 62, Nicholson doesn’t have enough savings to retire because she has been underpaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People still kind of see us as, I’ll say, babysitters, that’s really how people look at us,” Nicholson said. “We are actually the ones that are developing our next generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child care is a labor-intensive and essential service, yet people in the child care industry are some of the lowest-paid workers. The Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at UC Berkeley found that \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CSCCE-Early-Educator-Compensation-California.pdf\">home-based providers make as little as $16,200 per year (PDF)\u003c/a> — that’s less than what\u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/ooh/personal-care-and-service/animal-care-and-service-workers.htm\"> a dog trainer makes\u003c/a>. Like Nicholson, nearly all are women of color and many are immigrants, the study found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948547\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64832_017_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An at-home child care worker in a rainbow T-shirt helps a little boy in a red T-shirt untie a knot in his black sneaker laces.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64832_017_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64832_017_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64832_017_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64832_017_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64832_017_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annette Nicholson, also known as Gaga, helps a child with a knot in his shoe at the day care Nicholson operates from her home in Stockton on April 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nicholson follows a strict set of licensing requirements, such as meeting appropriate adult-to-child ratios in addition to meeting fire safety codes, sanitary food preparation standards and other requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also serves a wide demographic of families who pay private tuition, as well as lower-income families who receive public subsidies for child care. Still, those subsidies don’t adequately cover the cost of operating a licensed child care business, according to Nicholson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We provide all the meals, the location, toys, the assistant, the education piece, the tools to go with that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The providers who care for the most marginalized children in California are paid at reimbursement rates based on \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/californias-child-care-providers-need-a-substantial-pay-raise/\">outdated prices\u003c/a> from at least five years ago that neither reflect the true cost of care nor keep pace with the cost of sustaining a business, according to an analysis by the California Budget and Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An independent study commissioned by the state found \u003ca href=\"https://www.prenatal5fiscal.org/californiacostmodelreport2022\">the rates meet only 25% to 30% of the current costs to provide child care\u003c/a>. Yet, U.S. Department of Labor data shows parents are paying between \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/wb/wb20230124\">8% and 19%\u003c/a> of their median income for child care either at a home-based program or a center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948554\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948554\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/030_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023.jpg\" alt=\"A residential neighborhood with track homes and a cul-de-sac is pictured. Cars are parked in driveways and it's a sunny day.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/030_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/030_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/030_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/030_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/030_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gaga’s House, a day care run by Annette Nicholson at her home at the end of a cul-de-sac in Stockton, on April 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lack of available and affordable child care leads many parents of young children to leave their jobs. Economists call the \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/The-Economics-of-Childcare-Supply-09-14-final.pdf\">untenable situation a market failure\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Providers like Nicholson find themselves filling the gap between what parents can afford — and what the government pays for child care. Oftentimes, parents will take on credit card debt to make ends meet. Nicholson said she’s even dipped into her own savings to fix a fence that was damaged by a storm, so the children can play safely in her backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stagnant, meager wages are driving a \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/publications/brief/child-care-sector-jobs-bls-analysis/\">shortage of early educators\u003c/a>, causing child care centers to sometimes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11928111/teacher-shortages-force-dozens-of-california-preschools-to-close-classrooms\">close classrooms\u003c/a> when they don’t have enough staff to meet the adult-to-child ratio. For example, a study in Contra Costa County found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.first5coco.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Contra-Costa-County-Opportunity-Gap-For-Children-3-30-2023-FINAL.pdf\">90 child care sites permanently closed\u003c/a> during the pandemic, leading to even longer waitlists for subsidized care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11948316 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/040_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state tried to respond to the demand for child care by adding 200,000 new slots for lower-income families by 2025–26 — more than doubling what had been previously available. So far, the state has only filled about 146,000 of them. The situation prompted Gov. Gavin Newsom to propose \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4672\">delaying funding for 20,000 additional slots\u003c/a> to help balance the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child advocates said the problem isn’t because families don’t need public assistance for child care. It’s because there aren’t enough workers or licensed facilities to fill the slots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s urgent that we take care of this now because, as many of our advocates have said, care can’t wait,” Assembly Majority Leader Eloise Gómez Reyes told KQED. Reyes is asking lawmakers to bump up the reimbursement rate for providers of subsidized child care — essentially giving them a raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re taking care of the most precious people in our lives, and yet we are not paying them enough to keep their doors open,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyes said the increase will at least keep pace with the cost of living and stabilize the workforce, especially as federal pandemic aid dries up. Democrats in the state Senate agree and have proposed hiking certain business taxes to pay child care providers. A spokesperson for Newsom, however, told KQED that he won’t support the tax increases.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Assembly Majority Leader Eloise Gómez Reyes\"]‘They’re taking care of the most precious people in our lives, and yet we are not paying them enough to keep their doors open.’[/pullquote]Child Care Providers United, the union representing some 40,000 home-based child care workers in California, is going one step further. It wants an overhaul of the rate reimbursement system, to more accurately reflect the true cost of providing quality care and offer early educators a living wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, a work group convened by the state to assess that system concluded “the chronic undervaluing of ‘women’s work’ and racial bias against women of color” contributed to the low rates for early educators. Their \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalWORKs/CCT/CCDD/Rate%20and%20Quality%20Stakeholder%20Workgroup%20Report_August%202022_FINAL%20ADA%20(2).pdf?ver=2022-08-24-081240-333\">report traces the pay inequities to America’s slavery past (PDF)\u003c/a>, when Black domestic servants cared for the children of white families for little or no pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948548\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948548\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64826_009_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An at-home child care worker sits on a chair with children surrounding her who sit on a brown carpet. The worker is reading a story from a blue-colored story book about dinosaurs.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64826_009_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64826_009_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64826_009_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64826_009_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64826_009_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annette Nicholson, also known as Gaga, reads a book to the children at the day care she operates from her home in Stockton, on April 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If we were a male-dominated workforce, you wouldn’t even try to be this disrespectful with giving us a livable wage,” said LaWanda Wesley, a former early educator and advocate with Black Californians United for Early Care and Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So these women of color … some of them are 67 years old, don’t have health benefits and have to work year-round. So now you won’t pay them well … you’re getting free labor almost (from them),” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicholson said she hopes to see potential reform that recognizes her important role in nurturing young children during the most critical period of their brain development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948549\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948549\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64827_014_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut.jpg\" alt='An at-home child care worker hugs a little kid next to the book, \"Danny and the Dinosaur.\" A shelf filled with baskets of colorful toys are to the left.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64827_014_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64827_014_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64827_014_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64827_014_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64827_014_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annette Nicholson, also known as Gaga, hugs one of the children at the day care that she operates from her home in Stockton, on April 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She used to work as an administrator for Kaiser Permanente before deciding some 16 years ago to apply for a license and care for children inside her suburban tract home. She said her hospital job wasn’t fulfilling, and she wanted to return to her roots — helping her mother with her home-based child care business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicholson said she has reached a stage where she’s caring for the children of people she helped raise many years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to not only take good care of kids, you’ve got to love kids ’cause kids can wear you down,” she said. “You have to love them even more, to know that you’re not going to get what you deserve at doing this job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California’s early educators who care for the state’s most marginalized families are paid a fraction of what it costs to provide services. Now, providers are demanding that the state reform the way it funds child care.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1683242525,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1450},"headData":{"title":"'Care Can't Wait': California's Child Care Workers Demand Better Funding for Essential Services | KQED","description":"California’s early educators who care for the state’s most marginalized families are paid a fraction of what it costs to provide services. 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The parents who rely on her mostly work irregular hours, or need to drop off their kids early to commute long distances to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some leave babies as young as 6 weeks old with her. Some have even called her in tears, pleading with her to take care of a sick child because they can’t afford to miss work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the day, Nicholson reads to the preschool-age children, plays with them, watches over their naps and cooks eggs, oatmeal and other hot meals for everyone until the last child gets picked up around 8 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She works long hours, yet barely gets by. At 62, Nicholson doesn’t have enough savings to retire because she has been underpaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People still kind of see us as, I’ll say, babysitters, that’s really how people look at us,” Nicholson said. “We are actually the ones that are developing our next generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child care is a labor-intensive and essential service, yet people in the child care industry are some of the lowest-paid workers. The Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at UC Berkeley found that \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CSCCE-Early-Educator-Compensation-California.pdf\">home-based providers make as little as $16,200 per year (PDF)\u003c/a> — that’s less than what\u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/ooh/personal-care-and-service/animal-care-and-service-workers.htm\"> a dog trainer makes\u003c/a>. Like Nicholson, nearly all are women of color and many are immigrants, the study found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948547\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64832_017_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An at-home child care worker in a rainbow T-shirt helps a little boy in a red T-shirt untie a knot in his black sneaker laces.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64832_017_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64832_017_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64832_017_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64832_017_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64832_017_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annette Nicholson, also known as Gaga, helps a child with a knot in his shoe at the day care Nicholson operates from her home in Stockton on April 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nicholson follows a strict set of licensing requirements, such as meeting appropriate adult-to-child ratios in addition to meeting fire safety codes, sanitary food preparation standards and other requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also serves a wide demographic of families who pay private tuition, as well as lower-income families who receive public subsidies for child care. Still, those subsidies don’t adequately cover the cost of operating a licensed child care business, according to Nicholson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We provide all the meals, the location, toys, the assistant, the education piece, the tools to go with that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The providers who care for the most marginalized children in California are paid at reimbursement rates based on \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/californias-child-care-providers-need-a-substantial-pay-raise/\">outdated prices\u003c/a> from at least five years ago that neither reflect the true cost of care nor keep pace with the cost of sustaining a business, according to an analysis by the California Budget and Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An independent study commissioned by the state found \u003ca href=\"https://www.prenatal5fiscal.org/californiacostmodelreport2022\">the rates meet only 25% to 30% of the current costs to provide child care\u003c/a>. Yet, U.S. Department of Labor data shows parents are paying between \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/wb/wb20230124\">8% and 19%\u003c/a> of their median income for child care either at a home-based program or a center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948554\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948554\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/030_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023.jpg\" alt=\"A residential neighborhood with track homes and a cul-de-sac is pictured. Cars are parked in driveways and it's a sunny day.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/030_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/030_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/030_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/030_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/030_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gaga’s House, a day care run by Annette Nicholson at her home at the end of a cul-de-sac in Stockton, on April 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lack of available and affordable child care leads many parents of young children to leave their jobs. Economists call the \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/The-Economics-of-Childcare-Supply-09-14-final.pdf\">untenable situation a market failure\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Providers like Nicholson find themselves filling the gap between what parents can afford — and what the government pays for child care. Oftentimes, parents will take on credit card debt to make ends meet. Nicholson said she’s even dipped into her own savings to fix a fence that was damaged by a storm, so the children can play safely in her backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stagnant, meager wages are driving a \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/publications/brief/child-care-sector-jobs-bls-analysis/\">shortage of early educators\u003c/a>, causing child care centers to sometimes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11928111/teacher-shortages-force-dozens-of-california-preschools-to-close-classrooms\">close classrooms\u003c/a> when they don’t have enough staff to meet the adult-to-child ratio. For example, a study in Contra Costa County found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.first5coco.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Contra-Costa-County-Opportunity-Gap-For-Children-3-30-2023-FINAL.pdf\">90 child care sites permanently closed\u003c/a> during the pandemic, leading to even longer waitlists for subsidized care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11948316","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/040_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state tried to respond to the demand for child care by adding 200,000 new slots for lower-income families by 2025–26 — more than doubling what had been previously available. So far, the state has only filled about 146,000 of them. The situation prompted Gov. Gavin Newsom to propose \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4672\">delaying funding for 20,000 additional slots\u003c/a> to help balance the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child advocates said the problem isn’t because families don’t need public assistance for child care. It’s because there aren’t enough workers or licensed facilities to fill the slots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s urgent that we take care of this now because, as many of our advocates have said, care can’t wait,” Assembly Majority Leader Eloise Gómez Reyes told KQED. Reyes is asking lawmakers to bump up the reimbursement rate for providers of subsidized child care — essentially giving them a raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re taking care of the most precious people in our lives, and yet we are not paying them enough to keep their doors open,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyes said the increase will at least keep pace with the cost of living and stabilize the workforce, especially as federal pandemic aid dries up. Democrats in the state Senate agree and have proposed hiking certain business taxes to pay child care providers. A spokesperson for Newsom, however, told KQED that he won’t support the tax increases.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘They’re taking care of the most precious people in our lives, and yet we are not paying them enough to keep their doors open.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Assembly Majority Leader Eloise Gómez Reyes","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Child Care Providers United, the union representing some 40,000 home-based child care workers in California, is going one step further. It wants an overhaul of the rate reimbursement system, to more accurately reflect the true cost of providing quality care and offer early educators a living wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, a work group convened by the state to assess that system concluded “the chronic undervaluing of ‘women’s work’ and racial bias against women of color” contributed to the low rates for early educators. Their \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalWORKs/CCT/CCDD/Rate%20and%20Quality%20Stakeholder%20Workgroup%20Report_August%202022_FINAL%20ADA%20(2).pdf?ver=2022-08-24-081240-333\">report traces the pay inequities to America’s slavery past (PDF)\u003c/a>, when Black domestic servants cared for the children of white families for little or no pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948548\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948548\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64826_009_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An at-home child care worker sits on a chair with children surrounding her who sit on a brown carpet. The worker is reading a story from a blue-colored story book about dinosaurs.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64826_009_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64826_009_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64826_009_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64826_009_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64826_009_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annette Nicholson, also known as Gaga, reads a book to the children at the day care she operates from her home in Stockton, on April 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If we were a male-dominated workforce, you wouldn’t even try to be this disrespectful with giving us a livable wage,” said LaWanda Wesley, a former early educator and advocate with Black Californians United for Early Care and Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So these women of color … some of them are 67 years old, don’t have health benefits and have to work year-round. So now you won’t pay them well … you’re getting free labor almost (from them),” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicholson said she hopes to see potential reform that recognizes her important role in nurturing young children during the most critical period of their brain development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948549\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948549\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64827_014_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut.jpg\" alt='An at-home child care worker hugs a little kid next to the book, \"Danny and the Dinosaur.\" A shelf filled with baskets of colorful toys are to the left.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64827_014_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64827_014_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64827_014_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64827_014_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64827_014_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annette Nicholson, also known as Gaga, hugs one of the children at the day care that she operates from her home in Stockton, on April 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She used to work as an administrator for Kaiser Permanente before deciding some 16 years ago to apply for a license and care for children inside her suburban tract home. She said her hospital job wasn’t fulfilling, and she wanted to return to her roots — helping her mother with her home-based child care business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicholson said she has reached a stage where she’s caring for the children of people she helped raise many years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to not only take good care of kids, you’ve got to love kids ’cause kids can wear you down,” she said. “You have to love them even more, to know that you’re not going to get what you deserve at doing this job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11948419/care-cant-wait-californias-child-care-workers-demand-better-funding-for-essential-services","authors":["11829"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_25647","news_18538","news_20754","news_25966","news_32694","news_16","news_784","news_25967","news_32697"],"featImg":"news_11948546","label":"source_news_11948419"},"news_11948316":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11948316","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11948316","score":null,"sort":[1683111658000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-construction-industry-wants-to-hire-more-women-but-child-care-barriers-are-getting-in-the-way","title":"The Construction Industry Wants to Hire More Women, but Child Care ‘Barriers’ Are Getting in the Way","publishDate":1683111658,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The Construction Industry Wants to Hire More Women, but Child Care ‘Barriers’ Are Getting in the Way | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Tamarra Hayward, 36, is a single mother of three with two dead-end jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At night, she works the graveyard shift at an Amazon warehouse in the Sacramento area, picking out merchandise people have ordered online and sending it off to be packed and delivered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The job pays $19 per hour, which she said isn’t enough to make ends meet. So she delivers food for DoorDash on the side, and while she’s working, she relies on family members to look after her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Tamarra Hayward, apprentice construction worker\"]‘Two years of receiving a child care stipend will allow me to save two years of income that I would have taken away from my household for child care.’[/pullquote]“I’ve got someone different watching my kids every single day, and I’m struggling paycheck to paycheck right now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When an aunt, who is a longtime carpenter, suggested she pursue a career in construction, Hayward jumped at the chance and signed up for a pre-apprenticeship — a boot camp-like program that teaches the basics of carpentry before a four-year apprenticeship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/029_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11948324\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/029_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A group of women wearing construction equipment survey a building area.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/029_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/029_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/029_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/029_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/029_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An all-female group gets ready to pack up for the day. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hayward is among a small but growing group of women California is trying to attract to the trades. The construction industry has historically been male-dominated, and the state is trying to get more women and nonbinary people into the pipeline by promoting state-regulated apprenticeships that will lead to better-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The industry itself needs \u003ca href=\"https://www.abc.org/News-Media/News-Releases/entryid/19777/construction-workforce-shortage-tops-half-a-million-in-2023-says-abc\">hundreds of thousands of skilled workers\u003c/a> to replace older workers who are retiring, and to meet the rising demand for new construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But only 3.5% of people enrolled in construction apprenticeships are women, and access to child care is keeping many of them from joining the trades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you talk to women in the industry, they will likely share the challenge of finding affordable and accessible child care as a significant barrier,” said Katie Hagen, director of the California Department of Industrial Relations, at a news conference in March announcing $25 million in grants to help cover the cost of child care for women starting their careers in construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/024_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11948322\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/024_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women wearing construction uniforms hold hammers near wooden boards at a construction site.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/024_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/024_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/024_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/024_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/024_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oshen Turman practices nailing techniques during the six-week training program. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Apprenticeships offer participants who don’t necessarily have a college degree a chance to earn money while they undergo training in various jobs. They’re a key part of the state’s strategy to develop a skilled workforce by offering apprenticeships to a half-million people by 2029.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graduates from a construction apprenticeship program can expect to make $75,000 or more per year, said Hagen.[aside postID=\"news_11948283\" label=\"Related Post\"]“There aren’t very many jobs where you finish your training program and you can earn such a high wage,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Builders are trying to bolster the effort by supporting legislation that would \u003ca href=\"https://sd19.senate.ca.gov/news/2023/february/senator-limon-and-assembly-majority-leader-reyes-introduce-child-care-reform\">invest in more child care\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Meredith, president of the State Building and Construction Trades Council, said construction workers often get to job sites before dawn, so they need child care that falls outside of normal working hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Women are actually looking for programs that can take their children at 5 or 5:30 in the morning or, God forbid, even sometimes earlier than that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/026_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11948323\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/026_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people wearing construction equipment hold a wooden structure as one person looks on while another works on a different wooden structure.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/026_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/026_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/026_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/026_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/026_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants of the pre-apprenticeship working to become carpenters. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parents had a hard time finding flexible child care hours long before the pandemic hit. Between 2008 and 2017, the number of home-based family child care sites that typically offered care beyond the 9-to-5 schedule \u003ca href=\"https://rrnetwork.org/publications/nontraditional-hours-and-child-care-study\">steadily declined by 30%\u003c/a>, according to the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Gemma DiMatteo, research director for the network, these small businesses often struggle to stay afloat financially, and would have taken a harder hit during the pandemic if they hadn’t received federal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward said she anticipates that she’ll be on multiple waitlists for child care for her 12-month-old daughter, but it’s a step up from not being able to afford child care at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For six grueling weeks, Hayward drove 90 miles each way from her home in Sacramento to the Nor Cal Carpenters Training facility in the East Bay city of Pleasanton to undergo training with 10 other women. They’d start by running 1.5 miles around the massive building while wearing heavy tool belts and then spend the rest of the day learning how to use tools and machinery safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After graduating from the pre-apprenticeship, Hayward will receive $10,000 in stipends from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DAS/Grants/ERICA.html\">Equal Representation in Construction Apprenticeship\u003c/a>, or ERiCA, grant to help her get through the next phase of training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11948321\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women wearing construction uniforms hold hammers near wooden boards at a construction site.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamarra Hayward practices nailing techniques. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As an apprentice, she’ll continue with classroom learning and be on call when a construction job comes up. The stipends are expected to cover the first two years of the apprenticeship, when starting pay ranges from $30 to $37 per hour, depending on the location of the job site. But as the program continues, workers will see their pay rise. By the fourth year, they could earn up to $47 to $54 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means Hayward will make enough money to support her family with this one job — and child care will be subsidized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two years of receiving a child care stipend will allow me to save two years of income that I would have taken away from my household for child care,” she said. “I’m also going to be able to save money to buy a house for my children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the final day of the boot camp, Hayward said she woke up early, prepared bottles of milk for her baby, gave her a kiss and got in her car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/047_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11948326\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/047_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people wearing construction uniforms pose holding certificates in a building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/047_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/047_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/047_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/047_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/047_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamarra Hayward (kneeling in orange jacket) and Oshen Turman (second row, far right), alongside their classmates, pose for a portrait after receiving their certificates of completion. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I just finished giving her the last of the breast milk that I made. But I remind myself the reason why I came to this program is so that I don’t have to continue the cycle of struggle,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her kids and the promise of a better future motivate her to keep going.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Carpenters Training Committee for Northern California, a state-supported apprenticeship program, is seeking to attract women and nonbinary people into the male-dominated construction and building industry by offering child care resources and stipends.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1683159318,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1102},"headData":{"title":"The Construction Industry Wants to Hire More Women, but Child Care ‘Barriers’ Are Getting in the Way | KQED","description":"Carpenters Training Committee for Northern California, a state-supported apprenticeship program, is seeking to attract women and nonbinary people into the male-dominated construction and building industry by offering child care resources and stipends.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"The Construction Industry Wants to Hire More Women, but Child Care ‘Barriers’ Are Getting in the Way","datePublished":"2023-05-03T11:00:58.000Z","dateModified":"2023-05-04T00:15:18.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"The True Cost of Child Care","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/c8c626e8-b976-451e-b67d-aff6010e9f35/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11948316/the-construction-industry-wants-to-hire-more-women-but-child-care-barriers-are-getting-in-the-way","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Tamarra Hayward, 36, is a single mother of three with two dead-end jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At night, she works the graveyard shift at an Amazon warehouse in the Sacramento area, picking out merchandise people have ordered online and sending it off to be packed and delivered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The job pays $19 per hour, which she said isn’t enough to make ends meet. So she delivers food for DoorDash on the side, and while she’s working, she relies on family members to look after her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Two years of receiving a child care stipend will allow me to save two years of income that I would have taken away from my household for child care.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Tamarra Hayward, apprentice construction worker","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I’ve got someone different watching my kids every single day, and I’m struggling paycheck to paycheck right now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When an aunt, who is a longtime carpenter, suggested she pursue a career in construction, Hayward jumped at the chance and signed up for a pre-apprenticeship — a boot camp-like program that teaches the basics of carpentry before a four-year apprenticeship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/029_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11948324\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/029_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A group of women wearing construction equipment survey a building area.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/029_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/029_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/029_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/029_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/029_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An all-female group gets ready to pack up for the day. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hayward is among a small but growing group of women California is trying to attract to the trades. The construction industry has historically been male-dominated, and the state is trying to get more women and nonbinary people into the pipeline by promoting state-regulated apprenticeships that will lead to better-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The industry itself needs \u003ca href=\"https://www.abc.org/News-Media/News-Releases/entryid/19777/construction-workforce-shortage-tops-half-a-million-in-2023-says-abc\">hundreds of thousands of skilled workers\u003c/a> to replace older workers who are retiring, and to meet the rising demand for new construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But only 3.5% of people enrolled in construction apprenticeships are women, and access to child care is keeping many of them from joining the trades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you talk to women in the industry, they will likely share the challenge of finding affordable and accessible child care as a significant barrier,” said Katie Hagen, director of the California Department of Industrial Relations, at a news conference in March announcing $25 million in grants to help cover the cost of child care for women starting their careers in construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/024_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11948322\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/024_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women wearing construction uniforms hold hammers near wooden boards at a construction site.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/024_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/024_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/024_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/024_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/024_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oshen Turman practices nailing techniques during the six-week training program. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Apprenticeships offer participants who don’t necessarily have a college degree a chance to earn money while they undergo training in various jobs. They’re a key part of the state’s strategy to develop a skilled workforce by offering apprenticeships to a half-million people by 2029.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graduates from a construction apprenticeship program can expect to make $75,000 or more per year, said Hagen.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11948283","label":"Related Post "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“There aren’t very many jobs where you finish your training program and you can earn such a high wage,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Builders are trying to bolster the effort by supporting legislation that would \u003ca href=\"https://sd19.senate.ca.gov/news/2023/february/senator-limon-and-assembly-majority-leader-reyes-introduce-child-care-reform\">invest in more child care\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Meredith, president of the State Building and Construction Trades Council, said construction workers often get to job sites before dawn, so they need child care that falls outside of normal working hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Women are actually looking for programs that can take their children at 5 or 5:30 in the morning or, God forbid, even sometimes earlier than that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/026_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11948323\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/026_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people wearing construction equipment hold a wooden structure as one person looks on while another works on a different wooden structure.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/026_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/026_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/026_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/026_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/026_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants of the pre-apprenticeship working to become carpenters. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parents had a hard time finding flexible child care hours long before the pandemic hit. Between 2008 and 2017, the number of home-based family child care sites that typically offered care beyond the 9-to-5 schedule \u003ca href=\"https://rrnetwork.org/publications/nontraditional-hours-and-child-care-study\">steadily declined by 30%\u003c/a>, according to the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Gemma DiMatteo, research director for the network, these small businesses often struggle to stay afloat financially, and would have taken a harder hit during the pandemic if they hadn’t received federal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward said she anticipates that she’ll be on multiple waitlists for child care for her 12-month-old daughter, but it’s a step up from not being able to afford child care at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For six grueling weeks, Hayward drove 90 miles each way from her home in Sacramento to the Nor Cal Carpenters Training facility in the East Bay city of Pleasanton to undergo training with 10 other women. They’d start by running 1.5 miles around the massive building while wearing heavy tool belts and then spend the rest of the day learning how to use tools and machinery safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After graduating from the pre-apprenticeship, Hayward will receive $10,000 in stipends from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DAS/Grants/ERICA.html\">Equal Representation in Construction Apprenticeship\u003c/a>, or ERiCA, grant to help her get through the next phase of training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11948321\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women wearing construction uniforms hold hammers near wooden boards at a construction site.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamarra Hayward practices nailing techniques. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As an apprentice, she’ll continue with classroom learning and be on call when a construction job comes up. The stipends are expected to cover the first two years of the apprenticeship, when starting pay ranges from $30 to $37 per hour, depending on the location of the job site. But as the program continues, workers will see their pay rise. By the fourth year, they could earn up to $47 to $54 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means Hayward will make enough money to support her family with this one job — and child care will be subsidized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two years of receiving a child care stipend will allow me to save two years of income that I would have taken away from my household for child care,” she said. “I’m also going to be able to save money to buy a house for my children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the final day of the boot camp, Hayward said she woke up early, prepared bottles of milk for her baby, gave her a kiss and got in her car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/047_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11948326\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/047_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people wearing construction uniforms pose holding certificates in a building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/047_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/047_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/047_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/047_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/047_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamarra Hayward (kneeling in orange jacket) and Oshen Turman (second row, far right), alongside their classmates, pose for a portrait after receiving their certificates of completion. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I just finished giving her the last of the breast milk that I made. But I remind myself the reason why I came to this program is so that I don’t have to continue the cycle of struggle,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her kids and the promise of a better future motivate her to keep going.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11948316/the-construction-industry-wants-to-hire-more-women-but-child-care-barriers-are-getting-in-the-way","authors":["11829"],"categories":["news_31795","news_8"],"tags":["news_32694","news_32695","news_32696","news_32698","news_22570","news_32102","news_27626","news_32693","news_32697"],"featImg":"news_11948325","label":"source_news_11948316"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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