At the website The Billfold, Nicole Dieker writes about Alissa Quart’s story on 24-hour daycare centers: “The daycare Quart profiles is even open on Thanksgiving, because, to quote daycare owner Deloris Hogan, ‘The stores and the nurses are not off for Thanksgiving.’ … In some ways, it seems ideal: providing childcare options to people so they can keep their jobs and so their kids have somewhere safe to go while they’re working. But it also, at its core, feels wrong, doesn’t it? Like it’s the type of compromise nobody really wants to make?”
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