Child care industry struggles with worker shortages



ABC News’ Karen Travers reports on the shortage of child care workers across the country as the industry struggles to retain classroom teachers and compete with other employers raising their wages. ABC News Live Prime, Monday through Friday at 7 EST and 9 EST WATCH ABC News Livestream: https://bit.ly/3rzBHum SUBSCRIBE to ABC News: https://bit.ly/2vZb6yP SEE MORE at http: //abcnews. go.com/ LIKE ABC News on FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/abcnews FOLLOW ABC News on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/abc #ABCNL #ChildCare #WorkerShortages #childcareworkers

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23 comments

  1. This will be my last childcare center. The one I’m working in now ive been working in childcare off and on now, apparently we are getting another hero pay this time 3,000 dollars we will see

  2. Fire all the employees that won't get the jab. I don't know why we can't find workers.

  3. Lmao I know teens who charge $15/hr to “babysit” your kids. So yeah $13 an hour? What a joke! 😂

  4. Supreme Court and the government cares about your fetus, but don’t fool yourself, they don’t care at all about that baby once it can breathe on its own

  5. the lowest pay job is struggling with a labour shortage. that previous sentence obviously shows how to fix this problem.

  6. Government should do something about this since they got so much tax from people. Stop spending tax money on stuff that are not important

  7. Well, Republicans deported most of the Latina nannies. What yall expect.

  8. Child care workers like teachers are not paid nearly enough add that to the fact that parents aren’t teaching their kids how to be responsible and respectful and have no discipline. It’s not all parents but enough that it’s made an impact.
    I personally know someone who quit daycare because a 7 year punched her in the face and cussed at her but she was told to figure out what she could have done differently and the child had no consequences for their actions.

  9. It's the pay ! Taking care of the most precious thing but it's the lowest paid .

  10. Shoot I pay 260$ a week south florida for daycare

  11. 13$ per hour when you get at Publix 18$

  12. Pay is bad after 3 years of college not worth it

  13. The pay they get is not enough for all the do! And the safety in our schools and daycares are horrible! From staff and children getting shot, to Caring Hands Daycare, in LaSalle, Illinois, hiring felons! Someone should look into this place too. JS 🤷💯

  14. Looking after someone else's kids for minimum wage isn't the great job it used to be. We can pay the Kardashians a billion for their bullshit, but can't pay people decently to care for our supposed most precious commodity.

  15. Taking care of kids is hard and should be paid accordingly.

  16. I guess so when you mandate the jab

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  19. Minimum wage needs to be 20/hr with this crazy inflation

  20. Doesn't help that they pay absolute crap

  21. When I was a child, almost the entire childcare industry was teenage girls.