A Bay Area official says 600 child care businesses closed down in Santa Clara County.
She said a press conference will be held at Educare on Wednesday at 10 a.m. where more details will be provided.
"I am going to only have five kids and with five kids how am I going to pay the rent? How am I going to pay the teachers," Setie said."The biggest concern is right now because of this universal pre-school and kindergarten we feel like we are not being put on the table," Setie said. "For Latinas it's 33.5 cents on the dollar it's the most acute wage equity that exists in the nation. Latinas are at the bottom of the totem pole we're the fastest growing workforce in this country and so if we don't figure this out and we don't center this conversation in legislation with an equity framework thinking about those most impacted and those most acutely impacted it has to start in Silicon Valley," Chavez-Lopez said.
"We need extension of funding, it's pro-family, it's pro-jobs, it's pro-business. This is a bipartisan issue - it's not just a women's rights issue, it is a universal issue that all Americans should care about," Khanna said."You can't be confident with congress these day on anything, but I am hopeful.