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  "path": "/2026/03/02/community-driven-pilot-program-seeks-solution-to-child-care-scarcity-affordability-crisis/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-02T11:55:49.000Z",
  "site": "https://missouriindependent.com",
  "tags": [
    "Economy",
    "Education",
    "Child Care Aware",
    "child care crisis",
    "child care desert",
    "child care subisidy",
    "Child Care Works",
    "Children's Division",
    "kids win missouri",
    "Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education"
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  "textContent": "For Scarlett Loomas of Sikeston, the logistics of obtaining day care for her children were half the battle. She would drive southeast for 30 minutes each morning to East Prairie in Mississippi County to drop her kids off at child care. Then she would drive another 40 minutes farther south to work in Portageville in […]",
  "title": "Community-driven pilot program seeks solution to child care scarcity, affordability crisis"
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