Thursday, November 04, 2010

Rural immigrants lack child care

This is a big reason why immigrants have trouble getting to ESL classes also. Read the full report at http://familyresiliency.illinois.edu/research/documents/LatinoFamiliesinCentralIllinoisMay2010.pdf - - Donna Poisl

from UPI.com

URBANA, Ill., Nov. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say finding child care is difficult for rural U.S. Latino immigrants due to language, cultural, cost and time barriers.

Researchers at the University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences in Urbana say these immigrant parents in rural areas need child care that meets a certain cultural comfort level, is affordable for them and is available during shift work.
Click on the headline above to read the rest of this story! This is only a small part of it.

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