child-care worker

There aren’t many opportunities to trim costs, because the job of a child-care worker can’t be automated and employers can’t pay them any less.

A child-care worker doesn’t need an in-depth understanding of why punitiveness and detachment are harmful—they just need hands-on instruction on how to be less punitive and detached.

“The median child-care worker is paid less than $12 an hour, which means you can make more working at McDonald’s. A lot of people have left the industry, and new ones are not coming in.”

“Whether you’re a Democrat or Republican, it’s what you believe in your heart,” said Ostrander, a 60-year-old retired child-care worker from Lapeer, a county about an hour north of Detroit that voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump in a state Joe Biden won in the 2020 presidential election.

The typical American child-care worker earns about $13 per hour, and many earn just above minimum wage.