“About 21% of centers closed and did not re-open,” Ruth said.
“As a result of the pandemic the availability of preschool slots has decreased roughly 15%,” Emily Byrne, executive director of CT Voices for Children, said.
It’s also an economic issue.
“The sector brought in $718 million in revenue and government spending on early child care created an estimated $558 million in economic activity,” Byrne said.
That was in 2016. Byrne said their estimate for lost economic activity in 2020 was the equivalent of $9 million every week. That’s not including the parents who left the workforce to take care of their children.
“We believe child care should be considered essential infrastructure. All other infrastructure in our economy receive public support,” Byrne said.
She may be small in stature, but that hasnât kept Mary Francis Clifton from living life in a big way. nearly 102 years of it.
âI was born May 10, 1919,â she said sitting in the living room of her quaint Fulton home.
Sheâs surrounded by colorful walls and all her favorite things.photos, silk flowers, and lots of stuffed animals she has collected.
âYoung people today wouldnât live through what we had too, they couldnât take it,â she said matter-of-factually. âI did, I had to.â
The family matriarch of six generations was dressed to the nines as she told her story. Her red lipstick matched her sequined red hat and dress. She added a beaded gold necklace to accent her ensemble.
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Sian Proctor of Phoenix, second from the left, is a professor of geology, sustainability and planetary science who will pilot this fall’s SpaceX mission. She joins Jared Isaacman, left, Hayley Arceneaux and Christopher Sembroski. (Photo courtesy of Inspiration4/John Kraus)
PHOENIX – A Phoenix educator, entrepreneur, adventurer and science communicator has been selected for the crew of Inspiration4, SpaceX’s first all-civilian mission to space.
Sian Proctor, who’s a geology, sustainability and planetary science professor at South Mountain Community College, was one of the two final crew members SpaceX announced Tuesday at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where SpaceX Dragon will launch in the fall.
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