Although child care providers have mostly reopened, 8% have closed permanently since the start of the pandemic — and 57% of Texas counties still qualify as child care deserts.
in response to the pandemic, more than a quarter of licensed child care operations in Texas temporarily closed.the order for all child care services about a month later, more service providers continued to close temporarily, with the number of operations providing care reaching a pandemic low in May 2020.Phyllis Montoya prepares the children's lunches at Kid's Castle Family Daycare and Preschool in Pflugerville on Monday, Feb. 28, 2022.
“I can see why a lot of day care providers are closing because they just can't pay the bills,” Montoya said. “And I know this is the most challenging financially it's been for me in the whole history of me being a child care provider. It's just the burden and the stress and fear of losing even one more child that could push me over the edge to where I can’t stay open.”The number of home-based child care businesses like Montoya's has declined by about 15% since January 2020.
Because working in someone’s home can bring a risk of COVID-19 exposure — and because many parents don’t know how long they’ll need child care help as employers and schools change COVID policies — many nannies have opted for gig economy jobs like driving for Uber, she said. Before the pandemic, between child care centers and home day cares in the state, there were more than 1.1 million licensed slots for about 2 million children under 5. In January 2020, 150 of the state’s 254 counties — 59% — met the criteria for being a child care desert. Of those, 138 had at least three times more children under 5 than licensed seats in open operations and 12 had no operations at all.
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