Director of Policy and Research at N.C. Child Neil Harrington discusses an upcoming roundtable that will look at rising cost of child care.

North Carolina’s child care crisis is costing the state an estimated $5.65 billion annually and sidelining approximately 100,000 parents of young children from the workforce. The crisis costs Ashe County about $5 million per year. Neil Harrington, Director of Policy and Research at N.C. Child, joined Jeff Hamlin to discuss a roundtable slated for this week to examine the rising costs of child care.