Harriet Torry
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first heard Sep 2017
last heard Dec 2024
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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Child Care Will Be on the Ballot in Several U.S. States · 31 Oct 2024
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There are some critics of these types of measures.
The childcare industry, part of its problem is that there is, of course, a lot of regulation in that industry.
You have to have a certain number of teachers ratio per kids.
And some people say that some of the regulations are too onerous and they can help businesses by making it easier to operate rather than bringing in state subsidies.
The debate has really changed since COVID.
Childcare has always been a problem.
It's always been hard for people to find reliable childcare and it's always been expensive because this is a business where it is very labor intensive.
During COVID, childcare shut down en masse.
A lot of people lost their jobs and then it became hard to rehire because many of the people who had been working in childcare could go out and get
perhaps better paid jobs, working in warehouses, working in the retail sector or in a restaurant.
And it's just become very, very hard for people to hire childcare workers.
It's always been a relatively poorly paid position.
And a lot of businesses say, I don't have the capacity to bring more children into my daycare because I can't hire enough staff.
It's what one academic who I spoke to in the story said is a broken business model because it's not profitable for the businesses to operate and it's too expensive for parents to pay.
So what that means is that some people just
are out of the workforce because they can't afford to pay for childcare.
Yeah.
I spoke to one person in the story who has a two-year-old daughter and she tried to work.
She took a job as an office manager, but it was just really hard because most of her paycheck went towards paying for the daycare bill.
It was hard for her to get to work on time because she had a long commute and the daycare only opened at certain hours.
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