Unintended Consequences

04/06/2015

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Fertile, Minnesota, is a small town (with less than 1,000 residents), but what happened there last year is a microcosm of what is happening in many cities and states. Last year, First Children's Finance, as part of a rural child care initiative, Greater Than Minnesota, was exploring with the Early Childhood Initiative in Fertile, how to meet the growing demand for child care in the region through starting a child care center. While this research was going on, the local school district unveiled a low cost Monday-through-Thursday Pre-K program for four-year-olds. While this was heralded as good news for children and families, the result was that 2 of the 12 existing family child care programs in the community were forced to close and the viability of starting a child care center was put into question.

Source: Heidi Hagel-Braid, First Children's Finance

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