5th District Congresswoman Jahana Hayes is calling for a $100 billion investment in the child care sector following the COVID-19 pandemic.  She and some colleagues have proposed providing $50 billion in the form of short-term stabilization funding and an additional $50 billion in long-term recovery funding to support students, families and providers. Even before this pandemic, Hayes says over 44% of people in Connecticut lived in a child-care desert. According to the Bipartisan Policy Center, 60 percent of licensed child-care providers in the nation have already closed due to the pandemic and a survey from the National Association for the Education of Young Children shows that only 11% of the country's child-care providers will survive without government support.