Free Market Can’t Meet Families’ Childcare Needs: US has enough resources to provide public, high-quality childcare to every child, it chooses not to

[basquebromance]

Raising children is impossible unless you’re at the bottom or very top of society. Childcare fees are multiple times that of mortgages. Benefit claimants are incentivised to push them out, the middle pay for it whilst finding it impossible themselves. The sign of a sick society.

The Free Market Can’t Meet Families’ Childcare Needs

American childcare workers like me are confronted every day with a basic fact: the United States has more than enough resources to provide public, high-quality childcare to everyone who needs it, yet it chooses not to.

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New Mexico voted a child care guarantee into its constitution. For one mom, it means her 8-year-old doesn't worry about money anymore | CNN

A mom of three, Alicia Fout was going to college and working 30 hours a week but still often struggled to cover the cost of child care.

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[Polishprince]

No , the US doesn't have the resources at all- no one wants to become a babysitter nowadays. Its not about money , its due to a lack of staff.

 

[MarathonMike]

I agree. Let's stop all foreign aid and war support to Ukraine and put that money into day care for poor people who can verify employment.

 

[1srelluc]

Government and "high quality" should not be mentioned in the same sentence.

 

[eagle7-31]

Raising children is impossible unless you’re at the bottom or very top of society. Childcare fees are multiple times that of mortgages. Benefit claimants are incentivised to push them out, the middle pay for it whilst finding it impossible themselves. The sign of a sick society.

The Free Market Can’t Meet Families’ Childcare Needs

American childcare workers like me are confronted every day with a basic fact: the United States has more than enough resources to provide public, high-quality childcare to everyone who needs it, yet it chooses not to.

jacobin.com

New Mexico voted a child care guarantee into its constitution. For one mom, it means her 8-year-old doesn't worry about money anymore | CNN

A mom of three, Alicia Fout was going to college and working 30 hours a week but still often struggled to cover the cost of child care.

edition.cnn.com

Half correct, the market part. Free? nothing is free except advice sometimes.