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During coronavirus, child-care providers need the support they’ve always deserved | Opinion

Ask child-care providers what they need during this crisis, and many of the answers are what they’ve been for years.

Tiffaney Hobbs, owner of the Children of Destiny Learning Academy and the Learning Center, is still paying her staff and not expecting private-pay parents to pay while her site is shut, but she's not sure how much longer she can go on. She is shown here at the Children of Destiny Childcare Center, in Philadelphia, March 26, 2020. Day-care centers have been particularly hard hit by the coronavirus shutdown orders.
Tiffaney Hobbs, owner of the Children of Destiny Learning Academy and the Learning Center, is still paying her staff and not expecting private-pay parents to pay while her site is shut, but she's not sure how much longer she can go on. She is shown here at the Children of Destiny Childcare Center, in Philadelphia, March 26, 2020. Day-care centers have been particularly hard hit by the coronavirus shutdown orders.Read moreJESSICA GRIFFIN / Staff Photographer
    by Elliot Weinbaum and Rashanda Perryman, For the Inquirer
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