Both economists and people in the industry say limited child care in Alaska is hampering economic recovery statewide.
Early Learning For Everyone South site manager Judith Morales reads to her son Liam Morales and Landon Lockhart, both 4, on Tuesday, April 19, 2022.
There needs to be adequate child care for the state to grow economically, said Sara Teel, a labor economist with the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, who authored an article on the issue in theParents in Alaska are still having to stay home or cut their hours to take care of children, meaning they aren’t working or looking for work, Teel said. According to a survey conducted in March by the U.S.
Berglund said she has been told by many programs that federal, state and local stimulus has allowed them to survive. Still, there have been both permanent and temporary closures among licensed early childhood education programs statewide. “That is 100% due to workforce shortages,” Hooper said. “If we had more workforce, we would be opening those facilities.”
Early Learning For Everyone director Branwen Collier at her Midtown child care location on Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Before the pandemic, Collier said she already had a long waitlist for her programs, and they even opened a new location that was filled almost immediately. But now the waitlist is even longer. Her staff spends quite a bit of time fielding calls from people asking where they are on the waitlist and how long it is.
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