Alaska's child care shortage is forcing some parents to quit their jobs. Others are spending months and even years on waitlists before securing a spot, and they say child care prices are so expensive it's like paying for another mortgage.
to look at the state’s child care crisis, though the task force hasn’t been assembled yet.
Amanda Dale spends her time tending to her 7-month-old baby, Lina. Dale also has a 3-year-old boy who had been on waitlists for child care ever since he was born. Even after families like Dale’s secure a spot, the challenges don’t stop. Since there’s such a tight market, child care has become increasingly expensive for families. Dale said she and her husband pay more than $1,400 a month for their son, which she compared to a mortgage payment.
“I think the stress of infertility has really prepared me well for all these things I can’t control,” Smith said. “We can just kind of set everything up, and it’s gonna knock down how it’s gonna knock down.”“Does my husband quit his job? Do I quit my job? Does one of us go part time if we can only find part-time childcare,” Smith said. “And we don’t have family in the state.
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