https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c688f3ae4b01757c36c2511
this sounds like a pretty good plan
this sounds like a pretty good plan
currently americans spend way too much of their income on childcare, so this would cause considerable relief to many familiesSen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will unveil a major new initiative on Tuesday designed to make sure every family can afford high-quality child care, according to several people who have heard about the proposal or seen material describing it in the past week.
The plan seeks to make access to child care universal, the sources told HuffPost, by offering federal funds to providers that offer care at their facilities on a sliding income scale.
No family would have to spend more than 7 percent of its household income on child care, no matter the number of kids. Families with incomes below twice the poverty line, which is roughly $50,000 a year for a family of four, would pay nothing.
this is a pretty big deal. universal childcare is one of the best ways to increase labour participation rates among women and in the long run will help decrease the gender pay gap. and it would just overall be a pretty big relief in ordinary people's livesAs of 2017, married couple paid an average of 11 percent of their household income on child care, while single parents paid 37 percent, according to the research and advocacy organization Child Care Aware of America. And that figure masked enormous variation, depending on the community and type of care.