“We just don't have enough kiddos to justify the the overhead expenses,” Cooper told the Arizona Daily Sun. “Unfortunately, with childcare centers, and especially nonprofit childcare centers, there really isn’t a cash reserve. But the closure puts parents like Rebecca Yerian in a tough spot. Yarian said she enrolled her 4-year-old son Justin and her 1-year-old son Augustus in the YMCA’s program in March after the home daycare she had relied on ended. The woman who ran that home program was pregnant, and considering the pandemic, she decided it was safest to end her daycare, Yarian said.

Source: Daily Sun November 28, 2020 12:33 UTC