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With U.S. Child Care in Crisis, Businesses Must Step Up
When it comes to paying into a functional child-care system, businesses are freeloaders. It’s time for that to change.

Teacher Shanikia Johnson helps 3-year-old Magjor Jones clean up a puzzle at Little Flowers Early Childhood and Development Center in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, in 2021.
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