Early Learning Nation: Colorado Pilot Gives Home Child Care Providers Cash Payments with No ‘Strings Attached

“She puts in long hours, starting at 5 in the morning and working until 3 every day. One parent works on a farm an hour away, another works an early shift at a tamale factory and another works an early shift at a meat processor. Lerrga makes so little, however, that she has to work a second job cleaning a restaurant at night after the children leave.”