MARCH 7, 2024 / DAYTON DAILY NEWS
BY SHANNON JONES
In the next few years, employees of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base will get a new $31 million child care center that will care for and provide early learning to an estimated 300 children from 6 weeks to age 5. There’s also a second $29 million center in the works. It will provide care for another 300 children, ages 6 weeks to 12.
The military gets it. Uniformed service members and Department of Defense employees can’t do their jobs well if they don’t have affordable, accessible, high-quality child care. In 2020, the Department of Defense supported programs that served an estimated 200,000 children. Imagine if the families of those children couldn’t be at work. The military is making this investment because child care is a force readiness issue and a quality-of-life priority for its workforce.
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