How Child Care Is Becoming A Crisis In America

[David_42]

Where will you find the money to pay for this extremely expensive new program?

He doesn't care..he's a school boy and mommy is paying his way..

HE doesn't even PAY any taxes..so naturally he's an expert on how to spend tax money.

of course there's always the possibility he's a sock for one of these hyperpartisan progressives with their cute little clown avatars...

The fuck? You know nothing about me except that I'm attending college.

And that just demonstrates how low admission standards are.

Wow, great job, such a thoughtful post. How long until you join the other right wing nut jobs and celebrate the death of 100+ people?

 

[francoHFW]

How does every other modern country afford it, brainwashed functional morons? Family values my ass, hater dupes...

 

[OKTexas]

Where will you find the money to pay for this extremely expensive new program?

He doesn't care..he's a school boy and mommy is paying his way..

HE doesn't even PAY any taxes..so naturally he's an expert on how to spend tax money.

of course there's always the possibility he's a sock for one of these hyperpartisan progressives with their cute little clown avatars...

The fuck? You know nothing about me except that I'm attending college.

And that just demonstrates how low admission standards are.

Wow, great job, such a thoughtful post. How long until you join the other right wing nut jobs and celebrate the death of 100+ people?

How old are you child?

 

[David_42]

Where will you find the money to pay for this extremely expensive new program?

He doesn't care..he's a school boy and mommy is paying his way..

HE doesn't even PAY any taxes..so naturally he's an expert on how to spend tax money.

of course there's always the possibility he's a sock for one of these hyperpartisan progressives with their cute little clown avatars...

The fuck? You know nothing about me except that I'm attending college.

And that just demonstrates how low admission standards are.

Wow, great job, such a thoughtful post. How long until you join the other right wing nut jobs and celebrate the death of 100+ people?

How old are you child?

69 years old, 420 months young.

 

[2aguy]

This worries me, we need to expand our help given to families with children, the article shows some proposals:
How Child Care Is Becoming A Crisis In America

Child care is both an economic necessity and barrier to employment for most families:
65 percent of children under six have either both parents or a single parent in the workforce. At the same time, most working parents encounter significant barriers to finding affordable, high-quality child care.

The cost of child care is increasing squeezing middle class families and has become unaffordable for many low-income families. Child care is a major household cost and it is increasingly eating up a larger portion of the family budget. The average annual cost of full-time care in a center is over $10,000, with some areas topping $16,000. Between 2000 and 2012, a typical middle class family saw child care expenses rise by $2,300 while wages remained stagnant. The situation is even more dire for families living in poverty; among those that pay for child care, they spend over one-third of total income on child care.

Perhaps because so many families face the need for child care and the inability to pay for it, improving access to quality, affordable child care is shaping up to be a key issue in the 2016 election. Hillary Clinton has called child care a critical economic issue and proposes making “quality, affordable child care” a national priority. Bernie Sanders recently criticized the current approach to child care as inadequate and called on better training and pay for child care providers. Likewise, Martin O’Malley proposes increasing access to safe and affordable child care as a means to closing the opportunity gap for future generations. As the election grows closer, Republicans will also need to address this growing burden for families.

In addition to cost constraints, parents are also likely to encounter few options for quality care, especially in low-income neighborhoods that are largely “service deserts” when it comes to finding good child care. High-quality child care often costs significantly more and may not be available in low-income or rural areas. Child care for infants under age one is especially hard to find and expensive, as young children require more intensive caregiving and specialized equipment like cribs.

The current child care subsidy system, funded through the Child Care and Development Block Grant, or CCDBG, provides an average annual benefit of $4,900 for a child care center which is rarely adequate for families to purchase high-quality child care. However, after decades of brain research we now know that children need access to nurturing and enriching environments from birth that support healthy development and early learning.

Or....you lower the tax rates on everyone so that 2 parent families make enough so one parent can stay home full time......how about that sparky....?

And how about not having kids until you can afford to do that....that would help too.......

 

[David_42]

This worries me, we need to expand our help given to families with children, the article shows some proposals:
How Child Care Is Becoming A Crisis In America

Child care is both an economic necessity and barrier to employment for most families:
65 percent of children under six have either both parents or a single parent in the workforce. At the same time, most working parents encounter significant barriers to finding affordable, high-quality child care.

The cost of child care is increasing squeezing middle class families and has become unaffordable for many low-income families. Child care is a major household cost and it is increasingly eating up a larger portion of the family budget. The average annual cost of full-time care in a center is over $10,000, with some areas topping $16,000. Between 2000 and 2012, a typical middle class family saw child care expenses rise by $2,300 while wages remained stagnant. The situation is even more dire for families living in poverty; among those that pay for child care, they spend over one-third of total income on child care.

Perhaps because so many families face the need for child care and the inability to pay for it, improving access to quality, affordable child care is shaping up to be a key issue in the 2016 election. Hillary Clinton has called child care a critical economic issue and proposes making “quality, affordable child care” a national priority. Bernie Sanders recently criticized the current approach to child care as inadequate and called on better training and pay for child care providers. Likewise, Martin O’Malley proposes increasing access to safe and affordable child care as a means to closing the opportunity gap for future generations. As the election grows closer, Republicans will also need to address this growing burden for families.

In addition to cost constraints, parents are also likely to encounter few options for quality care, especially in low-income neighborhoods that are largely “service deserts” when it comes to finding good child care. High-quality child care often costs significantly more and may not be available in low-income or rural areas. Child care for infants under age one is especially hard to find and expensive, as young children require more intensive caregiving and specialized equipment like cribs.

The current child care subsidy system, funded through the Child Care and Development Block Grant, or CCDBG, provides an average annual benefit of $4,900 for a child care center which is rarely adequate for families to purchase high-quality child care. However, after decades of brain research we now know that children need access to nurturing and enriching environments from birth that support healthy development and early learning.

Or....you lower the tax rates on everyone so that 2 parent families make enough so one parent can stay home full time......how about that sparky....?

And how about not having kids until you can afford to do that....that would help too.......

Yeah, lower taxes on the rich, helps everyone.. LOL.

 

[2aguy]

This worries me, we need to expand our help given to families with children, the article shows some proposals:
How Child Care Is Becoming A Crisis In America

Child care is both an economic necessity and barrier to employment for most families:
65 percent of children under six have either both parents or a single parent in the workforce. At the same time, most working parents encounter significant barriers to finding affordable, high-quality child care.

The cost of child care is increasing squeezing middle class families and has become unaffordable for many low-income families. Child care is a major household cost and it is increasingly eating up a larger portion of the family budget. The average annual cost of full-time care in a center is over $10,000, with some areas topping $16,000. Between 2000 and 2012, a typical middle class family saw child care expenses rise by $2,300 while wages remained stagnant. The situation is even more dire for families living in poverty; among those that pay for child care, they spend over one-third of total income on child care.

Perhaps because so many families face the need for child care and the inability to pay for it, improving access to quality, affordable child care is shaping up to be a key issue in the 2016 election. Hillary Clinton has called child care a critical economic issue and proposes making “quality, affordable child care” a national priority. Bernie Sanders recently criticized the current approach to child care as inadequate and called on better training and pay for child care providers. Likewise, Martin O’Malley proposes increasing access to safe and affordable child care as a means to closing the opportunity gap for future generations. As the election grows closer, Republicans will also need to address this growing burden for families.

In addition to cost constraints, parents are also likely to encounter few options for quality care, especially in low-income neighborhoods that are largely “service deserts” when it comes to finding good child care. High-quality child care often costs significantly more and may not be available in low-income or rural areas. Child care for infants under age one is especially hard to find and expensive, as young children require more intensive caregiving and specialized equipment like cribs.

The current child care subsidy system, funded through the Child Care and Development Block Grant, or CCDBG, provides an average annual benefit of $4,900 for a child care center which is rarely adequate for families to purchase high-quality child care. However, after decades of brain research we now know that children need access to nurturing and enriching environments from birth that support healthy development and early learning.

Or....you lower the tax rates on everyone so that 2 parent families make enough so one parent can stay home full time......how about that sparky....?

And how about not having kids until you can afford to do that....that would help too.......

Yeah, lower taxes on the rich, help everyone.. LOL.

I said lower taxes on everyone.....anyone who pays taxes...oh...and cut government spending...that is the real problem.

 

[OKTexas]

He doesn't care..he's a school boy and mommy is paying his way..

HE doesn't even PAY any taxes..so naturally he's an expert on how to spend tax money.

of course there's always the possibility he's a sock for one of these hyperpartisan progressives with their cute little clown avatars...

The fuck? You know nothing about me except that I'm attending college.

And that just demonstrates how low admission standards are.

Wow, great job, such a thoughtful post. How long until you join the other right wing nut jobs and celebrate the death of 100+ people?

How old are you child?

69 years old, 420 months young.

Great answer fool, now answer the question in post #100.

 

[David_42]

This worries me, we need to expand our help given to families with children, the article shows some proposals:
How Child Care Is Becoming A Crisis In America

Child care is both an economic necessity and barrier to employment for most families:
65 percent of children under six have either both parents or a single parent in the workforce. At the same time, most working parents encounter significant barriers to finding affordable, high-quality child care.

The cost of child care is increasing squeezing middle class families and has become unaffordable for many low-income families. Child care is a major household cost and it is increasingly eating up a larger portion of the family budget. The average annual cost of full-time care in a center is over $10,000, with some areas topping $16,000. Between 2000 and 2012, a typical middle class family saw child care expenses rise by $2,300 while wages remained stagnant. The situation is even more dire for families living in poverty; among those that pay for child care, they spend over one-third of total income on child care.

Perhaps because so many families face the need for child care and the inability to pay for it, improving access to quality, affordable child care is shaping up to be a key issue in the 2016 election. Hillary Clinton has called child care a critical economic issue and proposes making “quality, affordable child care” a national priority. Bernie Sanders recently criticized the current approach to child care as inadequate and called on better training and pay for child care providers. Likewise, Martin O’Malley proposes increasing access to safe and affordable child care as a means to closing the opportunity gap for future generations. As the election grows closer, Republicans will also need to address this growing burden for families.

In addition to cost constraints, parents are also likely to encounter few options for quality care, especially in low-income neighborhoods that are largely “service deserts” when it comes to finding good child care. High-quality child care often costs significantly more and may not be available in low-income or rural areas. Child care for infants under age one is especially hard to find and expensive, as young children require more intensive caregiving and specialized equipment like cribs.

The current child care subsidy system, funded through the Child Care and Development Block Grant, or CCDBG, provides an average annual benefit of $4,900 for a child care center which is rarely adequate for families to purchase high-quality child care. However, after decades of brain research we now know that children need access to nurturing and enriching environments from birth that support healthy development and early learning.

Or....you lower the tax rates on everyone so that 2 parent families make enough so one parent can stay home full time......how about that sparky....?

And how about not having kids until you can afford to do that....that would help too.......

Yeah, lower taxes on the rich, help everyone.. LOL.

I said lower taxes on everyone.....anyone who pays taxes...oh...and cut government spending...that is the real problem.

Yeah, the poor people, who pay virtually no taxes, would be reaping in benefits.. Here's the reality, a tax decrease would do little to nothing for these people, it would benefit the rich, the people who hold the majority of taxable income, a viable solution is tax credits. Yeah, great idea, cut back programs these families need to get by..

 

[David_42]

The resident right wing circlejerkers have taken the thread with irrelevant ad homs, falsehoods, and stupidity. They're a cancer on this site.

trolling your own thread...again...


go do your homework, scooter..

I'm trolling my own thread? You're the idiots who came in and started spouting false ad-homs. It's fine if you do that if you actually address the fucking thread.

You want something serious, how did we ever put men on the moon and develop the space shuttle with out children raised by the commiecrat party and all their subsidies?

The fuck? Sounds like a bunch of irrelevant bullshit, considering NASA was/is.. You guessed it.

 

[2aguy]

This worries me, we need to expand our help given to families with children, the article shows some proposals:
How Child Care Is Becoming A Crisis In America

Child care is both an economic necessity and barrier to employment for most families:
65 percent of children under six have either both parents or a single parent in the workforce. At the same time, most working parents encounter significant barriers to finding affordable, high-quality child care.

The cost of child care is increasing squeezing middle class families and has become unaffordable for many low-income families. Child care is a major household cost and it is increasingly eating up a larger portion of the family budget. The average annual cost of full-time care in a center is over $10,000, with some areas topping $16,000. Between 2000 and 2012, a typical middle class family saw child care expenses rise by $2,300 while wages remained stagnant. The situation is even more dire for families living in poverty; among those that pay for child care, they spend over one-third of total income on child care.

Perhaps because so many families face the need for child care and the inability to pay for it, improving access to quality, affordable child care is shaping up to be a key issue in the 2016 election. Hillary Clinton has called child care a critical economic issue and proposes making “quality, affordable child care” a national priority. Bernie Sanders recently criticized the current approach to child care as inadequate and called on better training and pay for child care providers. Likewise, Martin O’Malley proposes increasing access to safe and affordable child care as a means to closing the opportunity gap for future generations. As the election grows closer, Republicans will also need to address this growing burden for families.

In addition to cost constraints, parents are also likely to encounter few options for quality care, especially in low-income neighborhoods that are largely “service deserts” when it comes to finding good child care. High-quality child care often costs significantly more and may not be available in low-income or rural areas. Child care for infants under age one is especially hard to find and expensive, as young children require more intensive caregiving and specialized equipment like cribs.

The current child care subsidy system, funded through the Child Care and Development Block Grant, or CCDBG, provides an average annual benefit of $4,900 for a child care center which is rarely adequate for families to purchase high-quality child care. However, after decades of brain research we now know that children need access to nurturing and enriching environments from birth that support healthy development and early learning.

Or....you lower the tax rates on everyone so that 2 parent families make enough so one parent can stay home full time......how about that sparky....?

And how about not having kids until you can afford to do that....that would help too.......

Yeah, lower taxes on the rich, help everyone.. LOL.

I said lower taxes on everyone.....anyone who pays taxes...oh...and cut government spending...that is the real problem.

Yeah, the poor people, who pay virtually no taxes, would be reaping in benefits.. Here's the reality, a tax decrease would do little to nothing for these people, it would benefit the rich, the people who hold the majority of taxable income, a viable solution is tax credits. Yeah, great idea, cut back programs these families need to get by..

You are telling me there are no cuts the government can make that wouldn't impact aid to poor families...that we need to pay for shrimp to run on treadmills, or studies to find out why lesbians who are fat can't get dates...we can't cut any of that spending without impacting poor families...how do you walk and chew gum at the same time?

What's wrong with letting rich people keep the money they actually earned...?

And the biggest problem for people who need government aid...they didn't stay in school, had sex and had kids before they were married, or they got convicted of a crime and can't get better jobs.......fix those problems and you solve most of this problem....

 

[OKTexas]

The resident right wing circlejerkers have taken the thread with irrelevant ad homs, falsehoods, and stupidity. They're a cancer on this site.

trolling your own thread...again...


go do your homework, scooter..

I'm trolling my own thread? You're the idiots who came in and started spouting false ad-homs. It's fine if you do that if you actually address the fucking thread.

You want something serious, how did we ever put men on the moon and develop the space shuttle with out children raised by the commiecrat party and all their subsidies?

The fuck? Sounds like a bunch of irrelevant bullshit, considering NASA was/is.. You guessed it.

Only thing irrelevant around here is you progs that haven't a clue.

 

[Rozman]

This is why the Libs push for Pre K in schools....
It's day Care for God's sake.....

 

[Rozman]

I love these Libs.....
Oh what a shame,a staggering crisis of epidemic proportions.....
Familes can't provide for their seven kids......

Hey asswipes....
Stop having so many kids.

 

[SuperDemocrat]

Where did this come from? I guess the left would do anything to get their hands on our children.

 

[Derideo_Te]

leftist created the single parent - 2 working parents idea

Can you ever make a post without lying?

The OP topic is the cost of child care.

Do you have anything of value to contribute?

Of course you don't!

 

[Derideo_Te]

Stagnating incomes were only viable for a long as there were cheap imports to offset the lack of income.

Now that the republican offshoring is causing wages to rise in the rest of the world those imports are no longer as cheap and that means that stagnant wages here are no longer able to handle rising costs, such a childcare.

Without disposable income the middle class engine that drives the American economy will collapse. We know this because every time the Wall Street Casino crashes and causes a recession millions of hardworking Americans lose their jobs and consumers stop purchasing because they no longer have incomes.

Right now we have low unemployment which is putting pressure on corporations to raise wages slightly in order to retain/hire workers. We are overdue for another recession so that situation won't last for more than another 18 months at most IMO.

But that is being optimistic. The economic slowdown in China could cause a recession to start at any time now. I don't have a crystal ball but those are the two major economic trends to watch right now.

But the OP is right. Rising childcare costs highlight the problem of stagnating incomes for the middle class. This is going to be a major issue in next year's general election and whomever can provide a viable solution is likely to emerge as the winner IMO.

 

[Rotagilla]

Stagnating incomes were only viable for a long as there were cheap imports to offset the lack of income.

Now that the republican offshoring is causing wages to rise in the rest of the world those imports are no longer as cheap and that means that stagnant wages here are no longer able to handle rising costs, such a childcare.

Without disposable income the middle class engine that drives the American economy will collapse. We know this because every time the Wall Street Casino crashes and causes a recession millions of hardworking Americans lose their jobs and consumers stop purchasing because they no longer have incomes.

Right now we have low unemployment which is putting pressure on corporations to raise wages slightly in order to retain/hire workers. We are overdue for another recession so that situation won't last for more than another 18 months at most IMO.

But that is being optimistic. The economic slowdown in China could cause a recession to start at any time now. I don't have a crystal ball but those are the two major economic trends to watch right now.

But the OP is right. Rising childcare costs highlight the problem of stagnating incomes for the middle class. This is going to be a major issue in next year's general election and whomever can provide a viable solution is likely to emerge as the winner IMO.

yes..of course...the "child care crisis" will certainly decide the next election...if the country can even LAST that long with this horrific child care problem occurring right under our noses.
This is an emergency! ...maybe obama can issue an executive order and get it all sorted out for you...

 

[Derideo_Te]

Stagnating incomes were only viable for a long as there were cheap imports to offset the lack of income.

Now that the republican offshoring is causing wages to rise in the rest of the world those imports are no longer as cheap and that means that stagnant wages here are no longer able to handle rising costs, such a childcare.

Without disposable income the middle class engine that drives the American economy will collapse. We know this because every time the Wall Street Casino crashes and causes a recession millions of hardworking Americans lose their jobs and consumers stop purchasing because they no longer have incomes.

Right now we have low unemployment which is putting pressure on corporations to raise wages slightly in order to retain/hire workers. We are overdue for another recession so that situation won't last for more than another 18 months at most IMO.

But that is being optimistic. The economic slowdown in China could cause a recession to start at any time now. I don't have a crystal ball but those are the two major economic trends to watch right now.

But the OP is right. Rising childcare costs highlight the problem of stagnating incomes for the middle class. This is going to be a major issue in next year's general election and whomever can provide a viable solution is likely to emerge as the winner IMO.

yes..of course...the "child care crisis" will certainly decide the next election...if the country can even LAST that long with this horrific child care problem occurring right under our noses.
This is an emergency! ...maybe obama can issue an executive order and get it all sorted out for you...

So you failed to comprehend that I was referring to the underlying cause which is the stagnating incomes?

Thank you for disqualifying yourself from any further meaningful participation on this topic.

Have a nice day.

 

[TooTall]

These nutters don't care about children, they only care about the fetus.

We had three and adopted two children and we only paid for day care for the last one. My wife worked from 7AM until 3PM and was home when the kids got out of school and I got them them off to school. No problems there. The ones that had the kids we adopted are the nutters.