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As funding cliff looms, NC has opportunity to improve child care access, advocates say

By Jennifer Fernandez Federal pandemic aid helped boost pay and increase benefits for the staff at Anna Mercer-McLean’s child care center in Carrboro. Even as enrollment has increased since late 2021, when that aid first started coming in, staffing is down by two people, said Mercer-Mclean, director of Community School for People Under Six. She […]