Sarah Siegel Muncey

Nonprofit executive

Ayanna Pressley

Congresswoman, 7th District of Massachusetts 

A preschooler gets up on her toes to reach into her assigned cubby at a preschool center Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, in Mountlake Terrace, Wash. (Elaine Thompson)

Choosing a career caring for others’ children means she can’t afford to have her own.

The child care crisis is a wage crisis

Amy McCoy reads a book to preschoolers as they finish their lunch at her Forever Young Daycare facility, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, in Mountlake Terrace, Wash. Child care centers once operated under the promise that they would always be there when parents have to work. Now, each teacher resignation, coronavirus exposure and day care center closure reveals an industry on the brink, with wide-reaching implications for an entire economy's workforce. (Elaine Thompson)