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From the editorial: If money means solutions, help is on the way.
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Duluth News Tribune Editorial Board | 7:30 am, Apr. 6, 2021 ×
Every single workday in Duluth, more than 1,200 families among more than 4,400 in Northeastern Minnesota struggle with what to do about child care.
“Those families are all figuring it out somehow unfortunately,” Scott McMahon, whose St. Paul-based Greater Minnesota Partnership crunched the numbers and is monitoring the struggle, said in an interview last week with members of the News Tribune Editorial Board. “They’re building their work schedules around, you know, Dad works here, Mom works here, so somebody is always home. They’ve got Grandma and Grandpa taking the kids one day, two days, a neighbor taking the kids one day, two days.”