How much of the increase in the cost of child care is due to private equity buying up child care businesses? Costs have ballooned in other types of businesses as private equity bought them up and became monopolies.
The costs of childcare, I’ve heard is more than college tuition for one or more than one child. That’s a double or triple whammy on families who are also already saving for college as well as childcare expenses. Affordability is not something Republicans are going to talk about unfortunately. They want to pad their pockets without regards for anyone else. They talk about how people should be having bigger families (JD Vance) but they don’t want to talk about affordability. Until they can put their money where their mouth is then they can just shut up about it.
Comments here talk about how not only childcare but many other expenses like education and health care have skyrocketed. What these things have in common is that none of them can be imported. So to what extent is our reaction to them caused by the fact that prices for goods that CAN be imported have actually gone down, whereas goods that require significant human labor at point of delivery have soared in comparison? And still, we know teachers aren't being paid enough. I agree that health care and housing represent additional problems not easily tackled in our political system, for sure. Then when candidates come up with solutions to this or that, they are attacked by the people for whom THOSE PARTICULAR ISSUES are not salient! Crabs in a barrel, with that attitude progress will be impossible. (Does anyone remember that Harris had a plan for addressing housing affordability? But that issue did not come to the forefront of the news until JANUARY 2025!)
There are more than enough childcare programs in the US. There are not enough AFFORDABLE ones. Childcare shouldn't cost more than a monthly mortgage payment or more than one months college tuition. Want to make it more expensive? Try having a child in diapers. I have multiple lists to help families in need at a local nonprofit childcare if anyone can afford to help. Even before covid19, many families struggled with the cost of putting enough food on the table, enough clothing, books, birthday/holiday gifts for the kids. That's when they felt safe going to work. It's different under the second regime. Things are even worse.
Rotary, JUF, and National Council of Jewish Women are great sponsors of nonprofit childcare.
If you want to help? Find your local one. Make a donation there. Volunteeer there. Drop off gently used/new clothes, toys, books. You can drop off nonperishable food too. Drop off basic paper goods. Old newspapers they can use for art projects that get messy.
In the greater Chicago area, you can also donate books to Bernies Book Bank. They are then sent to kids in need. (They despise the orange thing.)
How much of the increase in the cost of child care is due to private equity buying up child care businesses? Costs have ballooned in other types of businesses as private equity bought them up and became monopolies.
The costs of childcare, I’ve heard is more than college tuition for one or more than one child. That’s a double or triple whammy on families who are also already saving for college as well as childcare expenses. Affordability is not something Republicans are going to talk about unfortunately. They want to pad their pockets without regards for anyone else. They talk about how people should be having bigger families (JD Vance) but they don’t want to talk about affordability. Until they can put their money where their mouth is then they can just shut up about it.
There’s a split screen in Congress right now: Republicans want to burn money on tax cuts for billionaires
Let's call that what it is-- WELFARE FOR BILLIONAIRES, paid for by taxes on and removal of benefits for people who actually need to WORK for a living!
Comments here talk about how not only childcare but many other expenses like education and health care have skyrocketed. What these things have in common is that none of them can be imported. So to what extent is our reaction to them caused by the fact that prices for goods that CAN be imported have actually gone down, whereas goods that require significant human labor at point of delivery have soared in comparison? And still, we know teachers aren't being paid enough. I agree that health care and housing represent additional problems not easily tackled in our political system, for sure. Then when candidates come up with solutions to this or that, they are attacked by the people for whom THOSE PARTICULAR ISSUES are not salient! Crabs in a barrel, with that attitude progress will be impossible. (Does anyone remember that Harris had a plan for addressing housing affordability? But that issue did not come to the forefront of the news until JANUARY 2025!)
There are more than enough childcare programs in the US. There are not enough AFFORDABLE ones. Childcare shouldn't cost more than a monthly mortgage payment or more than one months college tuition. Want to make it more expensive? Try having a child in diapers. I have multiple lists to help families in need at a local nonprofit childcare if anyone can afford to help. Even before covid19, many families struggled with the cost of putting enough food on the table, enough clothing, books, birthday/holiday gifts for the kids. That's when they felt safe going to work. It's different under the second regime. Things are even worse.
Rotary, JUF, and National Council of Jewish Women are great sponsors of nonprofit childcare.
If you want to help? Find your local one. Make a donation there. Volunteeer there. Drop off gently used/new clothes, toys, books. You can drop off nonperishable food too. Drop off basic paper goods. Old newspapers they can use for art projects that get messy.
In the greater Chicago area, you can also donate books to Bernies Book Bank. They are then sent to kids in need. (They despise the orange thing.)