CCLC's Texas expansion comes when the need for off-hours childcare is increasing. A study conducted by the Texas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies cited, among other issues, lack of available childcare before 6 a.m. and after 6 p.m. In an article about the study that ran in the October 2, 1999 edition of The Dallas Morning News, Texas Workforce Commission chairwoman Diane Rath added that off-hours child care is in greater demand because the state's booming economy has generated jobs requiring night-shift work.

 

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