Numbers of working parents keep growing, as do the price tags of child care. A report by Child Care Aware includes Nevada as one of 35 states in which a year of child care exceeds a year of tuition at a public college. Guests weigh in on how costly it is, how many families receive state help and what resources are available to struggling households.

 

GUESTS

 

Marty Elquist, program manager with Nevada Child Care Resource Referral

Mike Maxwell, director of Las Vegas Urban League Child Care Subsidy Program

Grace Reef, chief of policy and evaluation with Child Care Aware of America