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Child Care in Central Illinois

Molly, Marie, and Evie play
Ryan Denham
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WGLT

Child Care in Central Illinois

Public K-12 education is financed almost entirely by the public sector—through taxes—and available to all children. Yet child care and other early childhood education involves substantial family payments. GLT talks to those on the front lines of child care in central Illinois about why it's so expensive, where there are gaps in coverage, and why some are optimistic about long-sought policy changes such as paid family leave.