Vermont’s Child Care Challenge

With 70 percent of Vermont’s young children in out-of-home care for at least part of the work week, high quality, affordable child care has become a key economic development issue for the state. We talk about it with child care advocate Melissa Riegel-Garrett and with Green Mountain Power President Mary Powell, the co-chair of Governor Douglas’s Building Bright Futures Council. And we visit a farm that’s weaning itself from fossil fuels.