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Cost of Childcare on the Rise in ENC

PRE News & Ideas
Published August 26, 2008 at 10:01 AM EDT

By Megen George

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New Bern, NC – Like gas and groceries the cost of childcare is going up and Eastern North Carolina is seeing childcare rates topping out at over seven thousand dollars annually. Megen George has this report for Public Radio East