http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/05/child-care-costs_n_4215659.html
Among US families, there is a growing disparity between the cost of quality child care and household income. Parents are feeling the budget crunch: the cost of quality child care vs. food, rent and/or mortgage payments. Some parents may feel pressured to take their children to care centers that are less expensive but not licensed.
Do you agree with the basic premise in this shared article: "Ensuring this care is high quality, affordable, and available for families is crucial to our nation's ability to produce and sustain an economically viable, competitively positioned workforce." How would you propose our nation's lawmakers respond to this need to improve the availability of quality child care in the US?
As a parent with a two year old and one on the way I can completely agree with this article. We actually have to be careful to space our kids out in age because we can only afford two at a sitters at a time. Otherwise I would not make enough to cover the costs which would make it pointless to work. I wish they actually had a solution and not just noticing that it is a problem. I think this is heavily intertwined with the rest of the economy's problems so an answer is probably far away still.
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