Chamber of Commerce, Poweshiek Iowa Development, Early Childhood Iowa seek to improve child care availability in Poweshiek County

By Chloe Wray wraychlo@grinnell.edu According to an August 2017 report by the Center for American Progress called “Mapping America’s Child Care Deserts,” large tracts of rural Poweshiek County constitute a child care desert, although Grinnell does not. Despite the fact that Grinnell itself is not a child care desert, employers and parents have long been...