Timely, true, and excellently reported with clarity. A major reason I didn’t have a second child was financial, which still pains me. Thank you for talking about these difficult and important issues.
Lane, this is a well-thought out article. Thanks for sharing your valuable research and background with us. I do have one question. If child-care costs are exhorbitant yet child-care workers are underpaid, where is all the money going?
Oh my goodness, YES, why are we not talking about all that the Build Back Better Act includes?! I didn't know about the inclusion of reduced childcare costs, free education, paying childcare workers a livable wage (yes, please). Agreed, this should be headline news. I'm fascinated with places like Norway and Finland. Those countries have very different attitudes toward families and working moms, but they are also smaller and more homogenized. That must help? But then America can financially afford to do better. So, arguments about being a large, complicated country must all be total hogwash? I never could stand the gall of old, rich, white dudes in power. They do not represent working families in America, yet they make the nation's most important decisions while lining their pockets with (legal?!) corporate bribes. (I know, I'm preaching to the choir here. It all just makes me so sick and angry, and sad.) Must keep hope though. Lots of good people pushing for change.
Timely, true, and excellently reported with clarity. A major reason I didn’t have a second child was financial, which still pains me. Thank you for talking about these difficult and important issues.
Lane, this is a well-thought out article. Thanks for sharing your valuable research and background with us. I do have one question. If child-care costs are exhorbitant yet child-care workers are underpaid, where is all the money going?
Oh my goodness, YES, why are we not talking about all that the Build Back Better Act includes?! I didn't know about the inclusion of reduced childcare costs, free education, paying childcare workers a livable wage (yes, please). Agreed, this should be headline news. I'm fascinated with places like Norway and Finland. Those countries have very different attitudes toward families and working moms, but they are also smaller and more homogenized. That must help? But then America can financially afford to do better. So, arguments about being a large, complicated country must all be total hogwash? I never could stand the gall of old, rich, white dudes in power. They do not represent working families in America, yet they make the nation's most important decisions while lining their pockets with (legal?!) corporate bribes. (I know, I'm preaching to the choir here. It all just makes me so sick and angry, and sad.) Must keep hope though. Lots of good people pushing for change.