Marsha’s Reviews > Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood > Status Update

The pandemic destabilized our already ramshackle structures of childcare. Although relief funding from the Paycheck Protection Program was able to keep a good chunk of centers from closing during the early days of the COVID-19 crisis, 80 percent of child-care centers are experiencing staffing shortages, a third have longer waitlists than pre-pandemic, and about a quarter have reduced their operating hours.