Five years ago, during the recession, Maria Morcera lost her house to foreclosure in Atwater, a city in California’s Central Valley. The house wasn’t just where Morcera, her husband and their four children lived. It also was licensed by the state as a family care home, where Morcera offered child care to children ranging in age from infancy to 5 years old.
“I was embarrassed” to lose the home, she said. “I had a lot of stress. It was really hard.”
Morcera was one of thousands of child care providers who were forced out of business during the recession. Family homes were big losers, particularly for owners such as Morcera whose mortgage obligations exceeded their income when the families they served lost their jobs and could not afford child care.
[For more of this story, written by Michael Collier, go to http://edsource.org/2015/hit-b...k/78262#.VTmGWyFVikq]
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