Growth and staffing were the two most popular words used by CEOs in our annual Top 50 survey of the largest for-profit child care providers in the United States. In the 32 years Exchange has been following the for-profit child care niche, this cycle has been repeated often—when the economy is booming and unemployment is declining, the demand for child care rises, but the supply of qualified teachers declines. 

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