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Earlier this month the Saratoga County Prosperity Partnership launched a pair of surveys to better understand issues related to a lack of child care in the Southern Adirondack region.
Shelby Schneider, President and CEO of the Saratoga Partnership, is a mother of four. She says she experienced the challenges of finding affordable child care firsthand.
Shelby Schneider
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“I’ve worked through the birth of all of my kids. And finding quality childcare, especially infant and toddler care, was a challenge then. But in the Capital Region, and there’s a lot data to support this pre-COVID, we have nearly 60 percent fewer child care spots in the Capital Region than we had in 2008. So we definitely have in this region a shortage of childcare.”
looks like through the day. and for philadelphia, new york city and boston, the rain moves in late saturday night. rain hard overnight. and then when you wake up sunday morning, it will be a cold rain. there is a little bit of snow showing up, the blue on here, maybe the catskills can get a little bit, berkshires and southern adirondack, pocono, but not a big snow event. the air mass is not cold enough. this will be clearing out sunday afternoon. so it will be a big football game, the patriots have a big home game this weekend. and i think that is a 4:00 game. the rain should be ending by then. and also, we will be watching the storm system, with the gusty winds behind it. so that is storm one. storm two, let s fast forward into tuesday, wednesday, heading into thanksgiving, next week and it looks like by the time we get to wednesday, busiest travel day of the year, that storm will be over the northeast, with gusty winds, also more rain, and possibly some high elevation snows, and then