CHILD CARE CONUNDRUM: How an expansion of state-funded preschool wound up crimping Michigan's child care industry.

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      When the state of Michigan added 21,000 4-year-olds to a taxpayer-paid preschool program in 2015, Carrie Mason watched the enrollment at the school she runs on the campus of Olivet College immediately nosedive. But gains of 2,505 seats among Oakland County child care providers were offset by a loss of 2,792 slots and 44 child care providers in Wayne County compared with two years ago, state data show. [Extracted from the article]