"The math doesn't work" when it comes to child care, saysRose Bradshaw.
The CEO of the North Texas Community Foundation tells the Fort Worth Report that 12% of the average Tarrant County family's income is dedicated to child care, and "it's unaffordable, inaccessible, and it's not working."
Bradshaw is among those calling for more public funding for child care in Tarrant County, which is one of the few bright spots in the country for child care but still faces affordability and workforce issues.
The average annual cost for infant care in Tarrant County is about $11,000, while a year's tuition at the University of Texas at Austin is about the same, says Bradshaw.
But when you think about: Why can my kid go to UT-Austin for $11,000 in tuition? "It's because there's a level of subsidy that happens on our university level that we don't find in the earliest years," says Bradshaw.
Texas has allocated $835 million for early childhood education, but early childhood education is not a big enough part of that equation, says Amber Scanlan, a member of Gov.
Greg Abbott's Texas Early Learning Council.
"They need care before school and after school, and they cannot ferry their kids from one location
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