A recent survey showed one in five parents were promoted once their children were given after-school care.

Many schools open at 6.30 am and close 12 hours later, providing free morning and after-school care for working parents with no extended family.

"Indiana has just passed a half-cent cigarette tax to provide before- and after-school care for every child in the state."

Despite this, demand continues to outweigh supply, especially for infants and after-school care.

Supporting the right to safe, quality daycare and after-school care for children.

The President also asked Congress to provide $800 million over the next five years to finance after-school care for up to 500,000 children a year.

Summit Learning provides services like after-school care, summer camp programs and boot camps.

She had to plan bus routes and after-school care.

She said that after-school care was very important to working families and single parents.

"God protect this family," she says, before racing across town after dark to retrieve her own children from after-school care.