--- title: "Child Care in Crisis: Can Biden’s Plan Save It?" description: "Child Care in Crisis: Can Biden’s Plan Save It?" --- [![Child Care Aware of America Logo](https://info.childcareaware.org/hs-fs/hubfs/social-suggested-images/usachildcareaware.site-ym.comgraphicslogo-new.png?width=690&height=350&name=usachildcareaware.site-ym.comgraphicslogo-new.png "Child Care Aware of America Logo")](https://www.childcareaware.org/) - [English ](https://info.childcareaware.org/media/child-care-in-crisis-can-bidens-plan-save-it#) - [Español (Spanish) ](https://www.childcareaware.org/?lang=es) - [Child Care Career Center](http://careers.childcareaware.org/) - [Help for Military/DoD Families](https://www.childcareaware.org/fee-assistancerespite/) Search ![CCA Logo/Homepage link](https://info.childcareaware.org/hubfs/ChildCareAware_October2019%20Theme/Images/menu_img.png) ## Media Center For media requests, please call 703-341-4161 or email [news@usa.childcareaware.org](mailto:news@usa.childcareaware.org). # Child Care in Crisis: Can Biden’s Plan Save It? March 31, 2021 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) New York Times These stories, from four different parts of the United States, aren’t isolated pockets of struggle. They are emblematic of a larger problem that has been widely acknowledged by people from the Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell to Amy Schumer: America’s child-care industry is in crisis. Initially, as parents pulled their children out of child-care centers in the first months of the pandemic, revenue plummeted. Then, as child-care centers opened back up, the burden of safety for the community’s children — including, in many cases, schoolchildren whose parents couldn’t help them with remote learning — fell on providers that were already struggling to survive on thin budgets. By summer, 50 percent of providers were still closed, according to [a research and advocacy group, Child Care Aware of America](https://info.childcareaware.org/blog/analysis-shows-child-care-supply-attendance-better-but-waivering). That number fell to 13 percent by December but those that have opened are debt-ridden, pinching pennies here and there, and short-staffed to keep costs down. [Read the full article](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/us/child-care-centers-crisis.html). Topics: [Media Mention](https://info.childcareaware.org/media/tag/media-mention) ### Written by [CCAoA](https://info.childcareaware.org/media/author/ccaoa) Previous Post [![CCAoA Statement in Response to President Biden](https://info.childcareaware.org/hubfs/The%20White%20House%20on%20a%20beautiful%20summer%20day,%20Washington,%20DC..png) ](https://info.childcareaware.org/media/ccaoa-statement-in-response-to-president-bidens-american-jobs-plan) [CCAoA Statement in Response to President Biden's American Jobs Plan](https://info.childcareaware.org/media/ccaoa-statement-in-response-to-president-bidens-american-jobs-plan) Next Post [Mass Exodus: Pandemic Forces Women Out of the Workforce](https://info.childcareaware.org/media/mass-exodus-pandemic-forces-women-out-of-the-workforce) ### Types of Media - [Media Mention (94)](https://info.childcareaware.org/media/tag/media-mention) - [News (7)](https://info.childcareaware.org/media/tag/news) - [Policy & Advocacy (5)](https://info.childcareaware.org/media/tag/policy-advocacy) - [Press (53)](https://info.childcareaware.org/media/tag/press) - [Press Release (42)](https://info.childcareaware.org/media/tag/press-release) - [Provider Appreciation Day 2025 (1)](https://info.childcareaware.org/media/tag/provider-appreciation-day-2025) - [Workforce (1)](https://info.childcareaware.org/media/tag/workforce) [See all](https://info.childcareaware.org/media/child-care-in-crisis-can-bidens-plan-save-it#) ** ![CCA Logo/Homepage link](https://www.childcareaware.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/logo-footer.png)![CCA Logo/Homepage link](https://www.childcareaware.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/logo-footer.png) ** Military Families × Close Panel ** ### Military Families × Close Panel ** × Close Panel