{"id":19229,"date":"2021-12-16T19:12:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T00:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/17\/childtaxcredit.jpg"},"modified":"2025-03-26T12:06:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:06:35","slug":"the-growing-tree","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/12\/16\/cronkite-news-payments-for-families-set-to-run-out-unless-congress-acts\/the-growing-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"The Growing Tree"},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[]},"class_list":["post-19229","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry","wpautop"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/acoJ7g-509","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"description":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href='https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/17\/childtaxcredit.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/17\/childtaxcredit.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"The Growing Tree\" data-attachment-id=\"19229\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/12\/16\/cronkite-news-payments-for-families-set-to-run-out-unless-congress-acts\/the-growing-tree\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/17\/childtaxcredit.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1333\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"The Growing Tree\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;The Growing Tree&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Brooke Skidmore opened her doors in rural New Glarus, Wisconsin, in 2013. The Growing Tree typically has over 100 children enrolled throughout the year, having a waitlist in all age ranges. In July, due to Covid-19, she went from 14 teachers to 4 and only about 50 students, leaving multiple rooms empty or full of storage in return.&lt;\/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Skidmore expresses her concern about finding teachers to hire; she states how unfortunate it is that teachers are only getting paid $10.66 an hour. It&amp;#8217;s problematic that you can go down the street to a gas station, Target, or Walmart and make more money than you can as a teacher for childcare.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/17\/childtaxcredit-1024x682.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Growing Tree<\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"<p>Brooke Skidmore opened her doors in rural New Glarus, Wisconsin, in 2013. The Growing Tree typically has over 100 children enrolled throughout the year, having a waitlist in all age ranges. In July, due to Covid-19, she went from 14 teachers to 4 and only about 50 students, leaving multiple rooms empty or full of storage in return.<\/p>\n<p>Skidmore expresses her concern about finding teachers to hire; she states how unfortunate it is that teachers are only getting paid $10.66 an hour. It&#8217;s problematic that you can go down the street to a gas station, Target, or Walmart and make more money than you can as a teacher for childcare.<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"The Growing Tree","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":2000,"height":1333,"file":"2021\/12\/17\/childtaxcredit.jpg","sizes":{"large":{"file":"childtaxcredit-1024x682.jpg","width":1024,"height":682,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/17\/childtaxcredit-1024x682.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"childtaxcredit-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/17\/childtaxcredit-150x150.jpg"},"full":{"file":"childtaxcredit.jpg","width":2000,"height":1333,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/17\/childtaxcredit.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"2.8","credit":"JESSICA RUIZ","camera":"Canon EOS 5D Mark IV","caption":"Brooke Skidmore opened her doors in rural New Glarus, Wisconsin, in 2013. The Growing Tree typically has over 100 children enrolled throughout the year, having a waitlist in all age ranges. In July, due to Covid-19, she went from 14 teachers to 4 and only about 50 students, leaving multiple rooms empty or full of storage in return.\r\rSkidmore expresses her concern about finding teachers to hire; she states how unfortunate it is that teachers are only getting paid $10.66 an hour. It's problematic that you can go down the street to a gas station, Target, or Walmart and make more money than you can as a teacher for childcare.","created_timestamp":"1625116024","copyright":"\u00a9 Jessica Ruiz","focal_length":"50","iso":"100","shutter_speed":"0.00015625","title":"The Growing Tree","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":19226,"source_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/17\/childtaxcredit.jpg","filename":"childtaxcredit.jpg","filesize":407321,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19229"}],"wp:attached-to":[{"embeddable":true,"post_type":"post","id":19226,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}