Summary: <p>What if your child care provider had to close down? That’s the very real prospect facing child care providers as they lose employees to larger corporate companies that can afford to pay them more. </p> <p>We talk to independent journalist <a href="https://twitter.com/brycecovert">Bryce Covert</a> who reported on this in her piece,<a href="https://earlylearningnation.com/2022/08/i-cant-compete-child-care-providers-are-losing-staff-to-mcdonalds-and-target/"> “I Can’t Compete: Child Care Providers are Losing Staff to McDonald’s and Target,”</a> as well as Khulood Jamil, a child care provider and owner of Khulood’s Child Care in Pleasant Hill, California. </p>
