‘Stressed and Desperate:’ Behind Minnesota’s Child Care Crisis

Child care providers in the state are doing what they can to boost wages and make the field more attractive to workers. But they face a tough financial reality.

Dawn Uribe, owner of Mis Amigos Spanish Immersion Preschool in Hopkins, has had to make some hard choices amid an ongoing worker shortage in the child care industry.

“I want our teachers to have a workable, livable wage, and I’m trying to make it so that our teachers can get paid like elementary school teachers,” she said. “That means that we have to charge our parents a lot of money, and that prices some of our families out.” Read more.