Child care is in crisis. Here’s what’s being done about it – WBUR

Over two years into the pandemic, the state is still missing about 8,000 seats that it had pre-pandemic. “That’s a dynamic that we have to keep in mind as we go about this … we can’t take three years to figure out the policy,” said Colin Jones, a senior policy analyst at the Mass. Budget & Policy Center.

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