CHILD CARE: INVALUABLE AND UNDERVALUED Direct payments to home-based child care providers can sustain them and the essential work they do to care for the children of working Americans. Anne Vilen Photos by Jimena Peck
Izabella Lozano, pictured here at 3 months old, is the youngest child in Olivia Hernandez’s care. Lozano has spent weekdays in Hernandez’s in-home daycare since the baby was 40 days old, when her mom went back to work.
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