The state is supposed to help families afford child care. But few qualify for help, and most of those who do are not being served.
to all families by the 2025-2026 school year and to serve 450,000 children, a spokesperson for Newsom said in an email.to pay for 200,000 new subsidized child care spaces by 2026, calling it an unprecedented investment that would lift up women and working families.
She also would have had to figure out how to drop off and pick up all three children, who would attend different schools, while commuting 45 minutes each way to her job in Carmel Valley. Buzzell doesn’t know when she will be able to work again. And when she can, she wonders if the right job opportunity will be there.“But at the same time, it also makes you feel like your career and all the work that you’ve done and all of your ambitions — everything — are insignificant in a way. They’re not necessary to keep our family moving,” Buzzell said. “My ambitions and career path and passions, you know, those are important to keep me going.
The state recently expanded access by raising the income limits to 100 percent of the state median income for one early learning program — state-funded preschool, which serves 3- and 4-year-olds. But state preschool provides limited help with child care for many working parents because most enrollment spots are part-time, as little as three hours a day.The income limits would have risen more dramatically under President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act, which died in the Senate in 2021.
The Reynosos have considered ways they might make ends meet: Should she get a second job on the weekends? Should they forfeit health insurance? Could she return to her lower-paying job with the Navy, just because the Navy offers discounted child care? And for two years she and her husband lived in Tijuana, crossing the border early each morning for work, until they could afford to rent in California.“You start feeling like you’re choking,” Reynoso said. “Being able to qualify for programs or at least a discount … for affordable, good-quality child care — that would make all the difference.”Even when families do qualify for subsidized child care, there’s often no guarantee they will actually get it.
There’s no room in the family’s budget to pay for child care for Ozzie. The rates they have seen for infant care centers ranged from $1,000 a month for part-time care to $1,400 for full-time. So they and Aaron’s family — including his grandmother, his mom, his aunt and his uncle — take turns watching Ozzie.
“It will continue to be like that until the state decides to fund every eligible parent for subsidized child care, which would be a terrific thing for San Diego families,” said Rick Richardson, president and CEO of Child Development Associates, a San Diego-based agency that administers subsidized child care programs.
“If you’re making minimum wage, it probably costs less for you to stay home and not work than go out and pay for child care,” said Robin Layton, past president and CEO of Educational Enrichment Systems in San Diego.Amanda Buzzell, who does not qualify for state child care aid, recently left the workforce to stay home with her three children, the youngest of whom she holds on her hip. “When it was comparing my salary to what the child care was going to cost, it just wasn’t worth it,” she said.
There are more than three times as many children age 5 and under as there are licensed child care spaces for children that age in California, according to census estimates and data from the. The shortage is especially acute for infants and toddlers.
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