Nike will retain oversight.The location is yet to be determined, but the company promises it won’t be more than a 10-minute drive. “We don’t want to sacrifice service, we don’t want to sacrifice quality,” said Sandra Carreon-John, a spokesperson for Nike.“At the end of the day, Nike’s not child care experts. Over the past 20 years, the cost of day care in the U.S. has doubled-for those lucky enough to find any at all.There’s not enough child care to meet the demand, and parents can spend months waiting for an opening. This is especially true in Oregon, where roughly 60% of the state’s urban and suburban families live in what’s considered a “child care desert”-defined as an area where there are three times as many kids in need of child care as spots available. They know that having access to high-quality child care at work is an extraordinary benefit.

Source: The Star June 07, 2019 09:22 UTC