As Centers Prepare To Close, A Look At The Realities Of Vermont Child Care

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As Centers Prepare To Close, A Look At The Realities Of Vermont Child Care

开云体育 | By Mitch Wertlieb,

Lydia Brown

Published January 27, 2020 at 12:00 PM EST

This month, Vermont child care provider Loveworks announced it will close its centers in Montpelier, Williston, and Milton.

In a letter to families, President Lisa Zengilowski said these locations "have proven too difficult to make financially sustainable" and will close on Friday, March 13.

This hour, we discuss what happened and consider the impact on Loveworks staff and families. We also learn what new data tells us about the realities of child care in Vermont.

Our guests include:

Hillary Wolfley, Parent of a 2-year-old at 鈥� Montpelier center
Amanda Goodwin, Director of marketing and communications for , the parent company of Loveworks
Aly Richards, CEO of , a movement for high-quality, affordable childcare by 2025
Rep. Theresa Wood, Represents the and sits on the

Broadcast live on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020 at 12 p.m.; rebroadcast at 8 p.m.

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Mitch Wertlieb

A graduate of NYU with a Master's Degree in journalism, Mitch has more than 20 years experience in radio news. He got his start as news director at NYU's college station, and moved on to a news director (and part-time DJ position) for commercial radio station WMVY on Martha's Vineyard. But public radio was where Mitch wanted to be and he eventually moved on to Boston where he worked for six years in a number of different capacities at member station WBUR...as a Senior Producer, Editor, and fill-in co-host of the nationally distributed Here and Now. Mitch has been a guest host of the national NPR sports program "Only A Game". He's also worked as an editor and producer for international news coverage with Monitor Radio in Boston.

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Lydia Brown

Lydia worked for 开云体育 Radio and Vermont PBS from 2019 until 2022.

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