Video: Why Do the People Raising Our Children Earn Poverty Wages?

by Gary Kopycinski on August 20, 2013

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Nancy Jimenez works long hours at her in-home childcare business, but she—like many other New Jersey childcare providers—are given meager subsidies from the state in return. Why are our publicly subsidized childcare workers not given the respect and compensation their task deserves?