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Sunday, February 19, 2023

How Other Nations Pay for Childcare - The U.S. Spends Only a Tiny Amount on Child Care and Early Education When Compared to Other Developed Countries.

1).  How Other Nations Pay for Child Care. The U.S. Is an Outlier.”, October 6, 2021, Claire Cain Miller, New York Times, at 

< https://portside.org/2021-10-11/how-other-nations-pay-child-care-us-outlier >

Rich countries contribute an average of $14,000 per year for a toddler’s care, compared with $500 in the U.S. The Democrats’ spending bill tries to shrink the gap.

2).  “Barry Ford on Economic Toll of Inadequate Child Care in the U.S”, February 18, 2023, Barry Ford of the Council for a Strong America discussed a new report on the growing economic toll of inadequate child care in the U.S., Washington Journal on C-Span, video and transcript (posted at the end of this entry for The Class Struggle), available at                                           <https://www.c-span.org/video/?525870-3/washington-journal-barry-ford-discusses-economic-toll-inadequate-child-care-us&event=525870&playEvent>


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