Even more — over 80% — have seen costs go up for cleaning supplies.
Just over half said they know of multiple day cares or family in-home providers that have closed permanently in their community.
“There are many providers that are, quote-unquote, ‘open’ — hanging on by their fingernails,” said Rhian Evans Allvin, CEO of the National Association for the Education of Young Children. “We know that they’re serving children every day, we know that families are showing up and dropping their children off. But the economics of the lower enrollment rates, the increased costs make it so that on a daily basis, the economics of childcare is upside down.”