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REPORT Workers

Who Cares? The Child Care Choices of Working Mothers

May 2003, Heather Boushey

This paper shows that formal child care is becoming harder to access for low-income mothers.  One-third of these mothers now rely on family members for child care, and there are indications that this is more out of necessity than choice.

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