Businesses, policymakers key to attacking costly child care crisis

Parents and children are hardest hit by the lack of affordable, available, quality child care.  

But businesses also pay a steep price for the worsening – and often hidden – national crisis.

In 2019 alone, the child care deficit cost Illinois and Iowa employers nearly $3 billion in lost productivity, revenue, and earnings, stakeholders learned during a Business Forum on Child Care as a…