SALT LAKE CITY For every dollar in revenue, child care providers spend 50 cents to run their businesses, according to one owner.
And when they try to expand, they encounter various costly roadblocks in licensing and zoning as they work with cities, Johnny Anderson, president and CEO of ABC Great Beginnings child care centers, told lawmakers during an Economic Development and Workforce Services Interim Committee meeting Tuesday at the state Capitol.
Cost is just one barrier families and centers themselves face, contributing to a shortage of quality child care options in Utah and the U.S., experts told lawmakers as they prepare to look into the issue ahead of next year s legislative session.
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Montgomery: The state has temporarily paused giving the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine out of an “abundance of caution” while federal officials investigate reports of rare blood clots, the state health officer announced Tuesday. Dr. Scott Harris cautioned people to remember those were just six incidents out of 6.8 million doses of the J&J vaccine that have been given across the nation. “COVID-19 vaccine safety is a top priority for Alabama. It is important to know that the adverse effects potentially stemming from the Johnson & Johnson shot have been extremely rare in the country, but out of an abundance of caution, Alabama is temporarily pausing these shots until we know more,” Gov. Kay Ivey said in a statement. Some vaccine appointments were likely canceled this week, Harris said. But he said the J&J vaccine ma
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) â Nearly 16% of Utah women have withdrawn in some way from the workplace during the coronavirus pandemic, new data shows.
And when you think about that in terms of the state s population, said Susan Madsen, founder and director of the Utah Women and Leadership Project at Utah State University, that s thousands and thousands of women.
Of Utah women surveyed by the project in January, 2.4% left the workforce completely and 2.8% took a leave of absence, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. Women commonly said they left jobs because their employer had to close or faced some type of financial hardship (4.4 out of 10); or because they had to care to care for children, the elderly or people with disabilities (1.4 out of 10).
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