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Three infant spots. Four thousand residents.
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This short explainer walks through the math of one rural community: four thousand residents, three licensed infant spots, and a hospital, a school district, and two manufacturers all competing for the same shrinking workforce.
It ends where awareness should: with the three concrete things local employers did next — a shared substitute pool, a lunch-and-learn series, and the county's first employer-sponsored reserved slots.
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