Childcare Workers Exit Industry Searching for Livable Wages and Benefits

The pandemic has thrown the whole childcare industry into crisis—along with working parents that rely on it. More than 10,000 workers have left childcare jobs just since June. That’s a huge exodus. Marcy Whitebook, the emerita director of the Center for the Study of Childcare Employment at the University of California-Berkeley, talks about the mass departure of childcare workers and what it means for families.