The Child Care Crisis is Killing the Economy — Year-Round School Could Fix It

Amanda Claypool
8 min readJul 10, 2023
Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

Summer is upon us which means kids across the country are out of school.

This is a notoriously challenging time of year for parents. Many can’t afford full-day child care let alone sending their kiddos off to sleepaway camp.

From an economic perspective, the problem runs much deeper. The summer slump at the…

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Amanda Claypool

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