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WASHINGTON, Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Many more Arkansas-Mississippi Delta region parents want afterschool programs for their children than are able to access them, according to a household survey commissioned by the Afterschool Alliance and released today. It finds that, by overwhelming margins, parents express strong, broad-based support for afterschool programs. But unmet demand – the percentage of children in the region not currently in an afterschool program whose parents say they would be enrolled if a program were available to them – is high, with families citing cost as a barrier to enrolling their children. As a result, for every child in an afterschool program in the Delta region today, three more are waiting to get in.