'We've had parents say, 'I can give you extra money!' I wish it was that easy.'
Michelle Pagano has been struggling for months to find employees to work at the two day care centers she directs in New York's Hudson Valley region."Forget about qualified applicants — I don't have a single resume on my desk," she toldPagano, the director of Pattycake Playhouse, which has locations in Newburgh and New Windsor, New York, said that finding employees during the pandemic has been nearly impossible and seems to be getting worse.
Her struggles are shared by child care providers across the country, as well as parents desperate to find care for their children as they face increasingly long wait lists.Child care has never been easy to find. But the recent worker shortage has only worsened the problem, creating challenges for parents who are feeling pressure to to go back to the office.
"In the 31 years I've been in the industry, I've never seen a shortage as severe as it is right now," said Jo Kirchner, chief executive officer of Primrose Schools, a large chain of early childhood education centers that's headquartered in Atlanta. Matthew Hashiguchi, a filmmaker and professor in Savannah, Georgia, put his 16-month-old daughter on day care wait lists months before she was born. This tactic wasn't unheard of even before the pandemic, especially for infant classrooms that require stricter child-to-staff ratios and in large cities that tend to have long wait lists.. But after several months of trying to work from home while raising a baby, Hashiguchi reached a breaking point: He needed help.
"We started reaching out to the places where we had been on wait lists and they had no spots," he said."It's been going on two years now."
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