{"id":85597,"date":"2023-02-14T17:37:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T22:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=85597"},"modified":"2023-02-14T17:37:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T22:37:36","slug":"why-many-early-childhood-educators-cant-afford-to-retire-tate-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/02\/14\/why-many-early-childhood-educators-cant-afford-to-retire-tate-sullivan\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Many Early Childhood Educators Can\u2019t Afford to Retire [Tate Sullivan]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2023-02-13-why-many-early-childhood-educators-can-t-afford-to-retire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Why Many Early Childhood Educators Can\u2019t Afford to Retire<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from edsurge.com by Emily Tate Sullivan<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">It\u2019s a bitter contradiction that spans the field: The job is a difficult one to do into old age, yet few who stick with it are able to set aside enough money to enjoy a traditional retirement.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nFor child care providers to come away with even the slimmest of profit margins, they are often already charging families the maximum they can afford to pay, explains Powell. And that\u2019s before providers have built in a buffer to cover an emergency fund, health insurance and retirement savings.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>At a certain age, you\u2019re not going to catch up. You won\u2019t own a home. You won\u2019t have retirement savings.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2014 Anna Powell<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cEven by the time they\u2019re in their 50s, they may not be able to start a savings account,\u201d Powell says. \u201cThey\u2019re still hitting that ceiling of what parents can afford to pay.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Many Early Childhood Educators Can\u2019t Afford to Retire &#8212; from edsurge.com by Emily Tate Sullivan Excerpt: It\u2019s a bitter contradiction that spans the field: The job is a difficult one to do into old age, yet few who stick with it are able to set aside enough money to enjoy a traditional retirement. &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,848,211,37,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-development","category-emotion","category-funding-grants","category-future","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85599,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85597\/revisions\/85599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}