Shelby County offsets child care costs for some employees
Shelby County government chief of staff Danielle Inez is a solo parent who spearheaded Shelby County’s pilot child care program. The program includes 100 Shelby County Government employees with small children eligible to enroll in a new $300 per month child care benefit. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
The six-month pilot program serves employees who have children too young for Pre-K and children with special needs.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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