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Box 3185 Mankato, MN 56002-3185  \n(507)934-7700  \n[www.ruralmn.org](www.ruralmn.org)  \nChild care in rural Minnesota after 2020: A unique opportunity  \nFebruary 2021  \nBy Marnie Werner, Director of Research  \nA unique opportunity?  \nAfter a year of COVID, spiking unemployment, closed schools, and restricted businesses, rural Minnesotans may be looking at a unique opportunity in economic development. Since the Great Recession, rural employers have been dealing with an ever-growing job vacancy rate, which we discussed in our recent report,“The pandemic paints a different employment picture in Greater Minnesota.” Now, at the beginning of 2021, we’ve been presented with a new and rare opportunity: we also have a larger-than-usual pool of unemployed workers. We now have the chance to match workers without job to jobs that need workers.  \nBut a few things stand in the way of taking full advantage of this opportunity. The first issue we addressed in last month’s report. Most of Minnesota’s unemployed workers’ skills don’t matchup with the skills rural employers currently need in health care services and our growing manufacturing sector. Many of the needed skills require training, and therefore, we need to make sure our retraining programs are ready for the challenge. Matching the right people with the right training programs to get them into good jobs would be a boon to young families looking to move to a community for the rural lifestyle.  \nThe other piece, though, is much tougher to fix, and that piece is child care. The one thing holding rural Minnesota back from taking a serious leap forward economically is the lack of workers, and there are three things getting in the way of fixing that: a lack of child care, a lack of affordable housing, and a lack of transportation. The biggest of these is child care.  \nThe trends  \nLast year finally brought into sharp focus just how important child care is to maintaining a functioning economy. As we noted in our original report on child care,“A Quiet Crisis,” in nearly 80% of Minnesota families, all parents work, and child care issues are the primary cause  \n© Center for Rural Policy & Development  \nof absenteeism among American workers. Child care is indeed the infrastructure that keeps America working, and COVID-19 and 2020 made this painfully clear.  \nLicensed child care comes in two forms: center-based child care (CCC) and family, or in-home, child care (FCC) . Because of economies of scale, family child care is far more prevalent in areas of sparse population, while child care centers are much more common in urban and suburban areas. In Minnesota, both types were growing fairly steadily until 2000. Around that time, something happened. The number of licensed centers kept growing, albeit modestly, particularly in urban areas, but the number of licensed family care providers started to plummet (Figure 1 & Table 1) .  \n\n| Change in provider licenses and capacity, 2000-2019 |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| 60%\u003Cbr>30%\u003Cbr>0%\u003Cbr>-30% | 59.1%\u003Cbr>10.8%\u003Cbr>-44.6%\u003Cbr>2005 2010 2015 2020 |\n| CCC Capacity CCC Licenses FCC Capacity FCC Licenses |  |\n\n-47.5%  \nFigure 1 : Change in CCC and FCC providers, year-end, 2000-2020.  \n2  \n© Center for Rural Policy & Development  \nTable 1 : Change in center and family licenses statewide, 2000-2020. Data source: MN Dept. of Human  \nServices  \n| Child Care Type | Change in licenses | Change incapacity |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n\nFamily child care -50% -47%  \nCenter child care 8% 6%  \nIn the Twin Cities, growth in center capacity between 2000 and 2019 was almost able to makeup for the loss in family-based child care. The metro area ended 2019 with a net of-1,462 spaces (FCC and CCC capacity combined) . 2020 set things back further with a net loss of an additional 1,200 spaces.  \nIn Greater Minnesota, the net loss of child care capacity was much larger: more than 20,000 space were lost, even though population in most Greater Minnesota counties grew during that time. 2020 was ba","cbCaibWl243qWuqw","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibWl243qWuqw","pdf",941721,14,"English","# Child care as an economic infrastructure\n## Rural employment opportunity after 2020\n## Barriers to growth: child care, housing, and transportation\n## The trends in licensed child care (2000-2019)\n## Net changes in capacity (2000-2020)\n## Why family child care matters for rural areas\n## Center capacity shifts and what they imply","[{\"question\":\"Why is child care presented as essential to rural economic development after 2020?\",\"answer\":\"The document states that child care affects whether parents can work and connects child care shortages to absenteeism. It frames child care as the infrastructure that keeps the economy functioning, with COVID-19 making this more visible.\"},{\"question\":\"What are the two main licensed forms of child care discussed?\",\"answer\":\"Licensed child care is described as center-based care (CCC) and family, or in-home, child care (FCC). The report notes that family care is more prevalent in sparsely populated rural areas.\"},{\"question\":\"How did child care capacity change from 2000 to 2020 in Greater Minnesota?\",\"answer\":\"The report says Greater Minnesota experienced a net loss of more than 20,000 child care spaces from 2000 to 2020, with the downward trend continuing through 2020.\"}]","Child care in rural Minnesota after 2020 - A unique opportunity - February 2021 | PDF",1792044297,35]