EXCERPT FROM: CBS 42
By Shanisty Myers
If you have a child in day care, you know how expensive it can be. Childcare Resources is a nonprofit agency that helps cut those costs. But, now they're taking a cut of their own.
Adrienne Glispie is a single working mother of three. for her, childcare is a necessity.
"Last week, I was $50 short and I was $80 short for the day care, so I had to chose which bill to pay. Right now, I pay $90 a week for my child to go to daycare and I know that's considered low," she says.
Glispie is one of hundreds who count on Childcare Resources to help weekly child care bills. But, now the economy is hitting the non profit agency where it hurts.
"Last year 340 families through our financial assistance, now we're only able to serve 133 families, almost a half reduction in who we're able to serve right now," says executive director, Joan Wright.
Because of the reduction, the agency is putting a halt on applications.
Wright says there may be a solution to the financial crunch, but in a weak economy it may be hard to accomplish.
"More money this is a direct program where we take in gifts, donations and we pass it right back to the child care services that these families have chosen," Wright says.