AZ childcare landscape ‘in crisis’ as assistance waitlist approaches 12,800 kids

Michelle Crow is the Southern Arizona director of the Children’s Action Alliance who is championing the $160 million funding increase. She says the state is facing a crisis with access to affordable childcare and that the economics of the field are changing rapidly.

“The stories that we’re hearing is true frustration from parents and childcare providers,” she says.

“We sort of dug ourselves into the Grand Canyon of not funding childcare and we really do have to work our way back out,” Crow says.