"We're doing the best we can for very little pay and, in my opinion, keeping the rest of America working, those parents working. And to think that we can't get [funding] for afternoon snack for each child, it's pretty disheartening... because we are going to feed them. So to think that that money has to come out of our own pockets. I looked up during the pandemic, I made $10.93 an hour."
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