In the last fiscal year, the state awarded San Diego area child care businesses more than $110 million, but almost 10% of that went unspent. Those funds would have created an additional 946 child care slots.
age women 25 to 54. we now are the laggard. we are not even back to the previous peak we were at in 1999. we ve come back to february 2020 levels after the recession, the shecession as you pointed out we lag our developing competitors in the g20, which is really the g19 because russia isn t in it anymore, and that s ridiculous. even our neighbors to the north and canada have a 12% higher participation rate among prime-age women than we do in the united states and the biggest penalty women face is having children. that is part of biology. other parents face it, a penalty, as well, and it gets to the issue of the child care crisis and parental leave in this country and we need all hands on deck. we can t afford to leave people not participating in the labor force when women are also the ones out obtaining men on