I recently wrote a post about how difficult it is for many low-income parents to get ahead if they don’t have child care assistance. Our child care system is funded at a level where it isn’t able to serve all working parents who may need it, much less those parents who need child care to get training or find a job. But there is another side to this story that all too often gets lost: the costs to children of having inconsistent care and instability in their home lives. Those costs may come back to haunt us as these children grow up and become our future workforce.

http://blog.metrotrends.org/2014/07/instability-harm-child-development-child-care-assistance/