{"id":40204,"date":"2025-08-23T11:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T15:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/south-carolina-losing-nearly-1-billion-a-year-due-to-child-care-crisis-report-finds\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T11:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T15:30:15","slug":"south-carolina-losing-nearly-1-billion-a-year-due-to-child-care-crisis-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/south-carolina-losing-nearly-1-billion-a-year-due-to-child-care-crisis-report-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina Losing Nearly $1 Billion a Year Due to Child Care Crisis, Report Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c64TuO6Ldzw?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>A new report reveals that South Carolina is losing nearly $997 million annually due to the lack of affordable and reliable child care. Parents across the state are being forced to cut work hours, forgo promotions, or leave their jobs entirely \u2014 all because child care is either too costly or unavailable. WSPA\u2019s Lauren Miller speaks with local parents, child care providers, and experts to uncover how this growing crisis is affecting families, the workforce, and the state&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca The average cost of child care is now $576\/month \u2014 often more than rent.<br \/>\n\ud83d\udccd Learn how families, businesses, and lawmakers can help bridge the gap.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf0 Full report and data available at WSPA.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report reveals that South Carolina is losing nearly $997 million annually due to the lack of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":40205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upstate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}