New Map Shows Child Care Discrepancies In Atlanta

Research shows when employees have access to good child care, they’re more productive at work. They miss fewer days and cause less turnover.

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Education advocates unveiled ATL ACCESS Map Tuesday. The online tool details child care options across the five-county metro Atlanta region. Want to know how many child care centers are in a certain neighborhood? Or what the median income in that neighborhood is? Just point and click.

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“You get the racial distribution and ethnic distribution of the area,” says Ira Goldstein, the president of policy solutions for Reinvestment Fund, which developed the map. “You get information about income, household status, school enrollment, language spoken, the kinds of jobs that are there.”