When Tabitha Alford opened her second child-care center in Fort Worth, Texas, in 2014, she didn't set out to make a fortune.
Instead, the 22-year-old owner of King's Kids Academy says she set out to provide high-quality care for children of "needy" families, but she couldn't afford it, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports.
The average cost of child care in Texas is $7,324 a year, and the cost of an infant is nearly $777 per month, according to the nonprofit Early Learning Alliance of Tarrant County.
Alford says she couldn't even afford to pay her workers a living wage.
"If you have this whole workforce of parents who aren't able to contribute to the community because they don't have adequate child care, that's a problem," the Early Learning Alliance's director tells the Fort Worth Report.
Alford says she's always had a "passion" for children and knew she would have a business if she could afford it.
But in 2010, she opened King's Kids Academy with a $30,000 budget.
"That would be a disaster for our workforce," she says.
"If you have this whole workforce of parents who aren't able
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