The cost of child care is hurting working West Virginians. A new program aims to help if lawmakers will fund it.

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But the program is small compared to the size of West Virginia’s child care crisis, and it won’t survive if lawmakers don’t step up with more money. Clark is now saving $80 a week on three days of child care for her five-year-old daughter, Gabby. Finding affordable child care is one of the biggest hurdles for West Virginia families finding and keeping jobs, business leaders say. A new model for child careThe new approach asks employers to pay a portion of an employee’s child care costs. ‘We’ve got to start to reform child care in West Virginia’The model isn’t unique to West Virginia.