Pandemic-era childcare subsidies expired on Sept. 30, affecting over 200,000 nationwide childcare providers that depend on those funds to pay their workers. Without the support, over 70,000 centers are at risk of closure, forcing the parents of over 3.2 million children—and their employers—to bear the brunt of finding alternative solutions for childcare.
Even before the subsidies expired, working parents’ capacity to juggle employment and childcare needs was stretched thin. In a survey of more than 1,080 U.S. working adults from Catalyst, a nonprofit supporting women in the workplace, more than half of employees with children say they have considered leaving their organization because of a lack of childcare benefits.
“These numbers are stark, and we would not be surprised to see them rise given the reality that working parents now face without childcare subsidies,” says Erin Souza-Rezendes, vice president of global communications at Catalyst.
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