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Lack of affordable child care costs WA $2 billion per year, report says

caption: Declan Hart, 4, left, and teacher-in-training Deassi Usman, right, play with shape blocks during a Pre-Kindergarten class at the Community Day Center for Children, during class Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014, in Seattle.
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Declan Hart, 4, left, and teacher-in-training Deassi Usman, right, play with shape blocks during a Pre-Kindergarten class at the Community Day Center for Children, during class Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014, in Seattle.
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Paige Browning talks with child care advocate Ryan Pricco about how a shortage of affordable child care in Washington is affecting the state's economy.

On Monday, a task force created by the Washington State Legislature released a report that says Washington employers lose more than $2 billion per year, due to employee turnover and missed work related to child care issues.

Pricco is director of policy and advocacy for the nonprofit Child Care Aware of Washington.

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