Two big things are on the horizon for Illinois' child care system.
The first is an increase in the state's minimum wage, which will rise from $8.25 to $15 over the next six years. The other is the Trump administration's proposed billion-dollar infusion of funding to increase the supply of child care to underserved populations, as first reported this week by NPR.
Katie Stelle-Mardis, owner of Katie's Kids Learning Centers in Bloomington-Normal, tells GLT's Ryan Denham that the minimum wage increase will impact the child care industry in many ways, especially because it's such an underpaid field already.
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You can hear more on this by subscribing to the NPR Life Kit podcast. This series is called Parenting: Difficult Conversations.
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