There's a child care epidemic going on and for those of you guys that have kids under the age of five you know exactly what this is with infants and those of me that want to have kids today is going to be the podcast you're going to want to pay attention to here's what happened when COVID took place one of the industries that no one talks about or even looks at the numbers got destroyed. Why?

Because everybody was forced to stay home and work from home.

And child care and babysitters are like wait a minute I went to school

for this you don't need me anymore the numbers decline not as if this is a very

high profit margin industry their margins are 1% and wait till you see how many of

them never came back after COVID.

I got a bunch of data here.

I got one study I want to read you before I get into everything else.

Families are making major sacrifices to afford quality care.

Number one, working multiple jobs, 28% of them. Number two, reducing

hours at work, 27% of them so they can spend time with the kids. Number three, moving closer

to family, 25%. Going into debt debt 19% leaving the workforce 17% some of the data here is

absolutely staggering and if you're a parent you're going to say I agree with all of it we're

going to talk about all this stuff here today.

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subscribe to the channel. So between 2020 and 2022, 16,000 child care

programs nationwide clothes, not 16,000 child care employees. Programs

16,000 during those two years of COVID closed and a 9% of decline in licensed

providers.

Meanwhile, while that is taking place 51% of Americans, living communities classified

as child care deserts, and 31.7% of U children under the age of five cannot access a

child care slot. I'm going to show you a map that's going to show you where it's

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