'Almost impossible': Moms tell Sen. Ruben Gallego childcare in Arizona is unaffordable - ABC15 Arizona
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Sen. Ruben Gallego heard from mothers about the high cost of childcare in Arizona at a town hall in Phoenix.
PHOENIX (KNXV) — Several mothers told U. S. Sen. Ruben Gallego at a town hall Monday in Phoenix that childcare is out of reach for even many two-income Arizona families. Gretchen Lopez, the mother of two young girls, said she struggled to afford childcare for her 20-year-son when she was a single mom and is surprised to find it’s still a fight today. “And never would I have ever thought that this many years later, now with a husband, two income-family, that we would still be struggling with childcare,” she told Gallego. Lopez and her husband make too much to qualify for Head Start, a free federal early-childhood education program. “Childcare costs almost more than our rent a month, and we are a two-income family,” she told reporters after the town hall. Lopez’s youngest daughter has a scholarship for half the cost of her preschool, but the family still strains to cover the other half. “The cost of childcare on top of the cost of everything else right now, really is almost impossible,” she said.
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