Coronavirus in rural America (Part LXIII): The childcare deficit aggravated

The Washington Post headline this morning is "Middle-income and rural families disproportionately grapple with child-care deserts, new analysis shows," and Amanda Becker reports.   Here's an excerpt about the rural issue:

Rural families nationwide had the fewest child-care slots relative to demand across all categories, the researchers found.

But most of the story is not about the rural deficit. Here are two more interesting excerpts about where the deficits are:

Lower-income neighborhoods had slightly more child-care capacity than middle-income neighborhoods, for example, which could be due to federally subsidized child-care programs and tuition vouchers, Malik said.

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Latino communities were more likely to be child-care deserts than white communities. Detroit, which is nearly 80 percent black, is a “vast child-care desert,” while the surrounding affluent, white suburbs have “abundant licensed child care,” the researchers found. In Milwaukee, the northern section of the city, which is heavily black, has more available child care than the southern part, which is heavily Latino.