{"id":107843,"date":"2025-07-31T15:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/107843\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:17:09","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-child-care-must-not-be-forgotten-as-l-a-rebuilds-after-the-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/107843\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: Child care must not be forgotten as L.A. rebuilds after the fires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>To the editor<\/b>: The Los Angeles Times covered a report that the L.A. wildfires caused $51.7 billion in residential damage largely affecting the Palisades, not yet including a figure for the Eaton fire (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2025-07-28\/new-report-estimates-damage-from-los-angeles-wildfires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cJanuary wildfire damage could total $51.7 billion within L.A. city limits,\u201d<\/a> July 28). No doubt, the devastation to both communities is staggering. I can\u2019t help but wonder how child care fits into accounts of the total damage.<\/p>\n<p>Child care is a critical part of infrastructure. It supports the economy, parents and children. The loss of facilities is only the beginning. The loss and serious damage to more than <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/edsource.org\/2025\/when-disaster-strikes-child-care-holds-the-line\/735332\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">100 total child-care sites<\/a> exacerbates an already strained system, hurting families, children and our workforce.<\/p>\n<p>The data give us one measure of what needs attention in this time of rebuilding. We cannot forget about the fires\u2019 effect on our children and the ages 0-3 care system we all depend on. As we rebuild our resilient communities, we can\u2019t leave our children behind \u2014 and that means we can\u2019t leave child care behind.<\/p>\n<p>Cristina Alvarado, Los Angeles<br \/>This writer is executive director of the nonprofit Child Care Alliance Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: The Los Angeles Times covered a report that the L.A. wildfires caused $51.7 billion in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":107844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,25710,718,68953,7129,6808,246,5025,5173,68952,2961,224,2444,5337,5948,6976,68955,68956,68954],"class_list":{"0":"post-107843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-child-care","11":"tag-community","12":"tag-critical-part","13":"tag-editor","14":"tag-facility","15":"tag-family","16":"tag-fire","17":"tag-infrastructure","18":"tag-l-a-rebuild","19":"tag-la","20":"tag-los-angeles","21":"tag-los-angeles-times","22":"tag-losangeles","23":"tag-loss","24":"tag-parent","25":"tag-serious-damage","26":"tag-strained-system","27":"tag-total-damage"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114948515183368308","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}