Senators urge leadership to back childcare funding

A new survey reveals Minnesota could lose 55-percent of its childcare options.

Parents have faced a tough burden since the start of the pandemic.

There is concern about where kids will go when it is over.

That's why senators tina smith and elizabeth warren are calling on senate leadership to allocate 50 billion dollars to fund childcare in the next coronavirus relief package.

Without the support... the center for american progress says minnesota could lose 55 percent of its childcare options.

Xxx "what's happening now is a lot of parents aren't working and keeping children home, but the daycare center, the nursery school has therefore lost a lot of income and revenue, for them to stay open in the lon?term they are going to need help in order to do that."

Senators smith and warren are urging senate leadeership to back more childcare