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Montana’s child care system suffers from low wages, high demand

More than 200,000 Montana children require some kind of child care almost every day. Together, their ranks number almost twice the population of Montana’s largest city. Some of these children will spend more waking hours with a paid caregiver than they will their own parents.

Child care is an enormous industry in Montana, employing more than 6,600 people — significantly more than trucking, real estate, logging or coal mining.

Yet, according to child care experts, providers and employees, Montana’s child care system has serious flaws.

By Jennifer McKee

Full Story: http://www.mtstandard.com/articles/2009/09/20/state/hjjajaiahgfejb.txt

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