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Bigfoot vs. the Child Care Desert: Why Raising a Family Became a Luxury
Parents pay more than they can afford. Child-care educators earn less than they can live on. Providers still struggle to remain open. How can all three be true? Dave Pederson talks with nationally recognized family-policy expert Elliot Haspel about why America's child-care crisis isn't a personal budgeting failure—it is the predictable result of treating essential social infrastructure like an ordinary private-market purchase. Elliot explains the labor economics that make child care uniquely difficult to finance, how Richard Nixon's 1971 veto helped establish America's "free-market family,"…
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