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When Work and Care Collide: New Hampshire’s Quiet Child Care Revolution
On a quiet Tuesday morning in Manchester, New Hampshire, a group of parents gathered in the corner of a local community center, sipping coffee while their toddlers played nearby. The conversation, as it often does, drifted toward child care, who’s struggling to find it, who’s paying too much for it, and who’s had to rearrange their entire work schedule just to make it work. One mother, a nurse at a nearby hospital, shared that she’d switched to night shifts because daytime care was too expensive and too scarce. Another father, a warehouse manager, said his company had recently started offering
