Minnesota parents near breaking point as COVID-19 exacerbates child-care crisis

Parents are tired.

Take nursing assistant Tammi Lewis, who missed weeks of work and $7,800 in wages when her toddler's child-care classroom in Plymouth suffered COVID outbreaks.

Or Kelsey and Christian Dahlager, who pay $3,000 a month for child care for their two children - a sum greater than community college tuition and $300 more than a parent making minimum wage would take home in a month - yet still find themselves some days juggling working from home with watching an infant and toddler because caregivers are sick.

https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-parents-near-breaking-point-as-covid-19-exacerbates-child-care-crisis/600136259/