Child care cost as much as rent for many families at inflation's peak, new data shows
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“These costs are just untenable for an awful lot of families,” the Labor Department found. But while Trump benefited from voters’ economic ire, the politics of child care aren’t cut-and-dried.

Summary

Child care costs for many U.S. families during peak inflation in 2022 ranged from $6,552 to $15,600 per child, comparable to rent, according to Labor Department data.

These high costs strained household budgets, disproportionately impacted women’s workforce participation, and fueled economic dissatisfaction among voters.

While Kamala Harris proposed policies to reduce child care costs, Donald Trump capitalized on broader economic grievances to expand his voter base, despite offering few specifics on addressing the issue.

Pandemic-era federal aid helped stabilize costs but left parents bearing much of the financial burden.

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    303·
    23 days ago

    Sure is great how Manchin killed the childcare provision of BBB.

    Centrists made this happen. Now tell us again how we’re imagining not being able to afford to live.

    • spyd3r@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      338·
      23 days ago

      Good thing too, its not my responsibility to care for or support anyone else’s crotch goblin bastards.

        • spyd3r@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          29·
          23 days ago

          Small-l libertarian, classical liberal, minarchist, or maybe even an Ancap, I’m not quite sure, but whichever gets the government to go away and leave people alone to live their lives as they seem fit. All the parties today are trash, compromised by foreign interests, corporations, billionaires, grifters, or worse, and I want nothing to do with them.

          • teft@lemmy.world
            9·
            23 days ago

            What’s your plan for when the government isn’t there and your local warlords…i mean amazon service representatives come to your house and take all your shit or enslave you? Not like you’ll be able to call the police or anything since you don’t want government.

            Or hell, whats your plan to get rid of your garbage when there is no government? Throw it into your neighbors yard?

            • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              23 days ago

              Or hell, whats your plan to get rid of your garbage when there is no government?

              The bears will take care of it.

            • spyd3r@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              13·
              22 days ago

              Garbage, uhmm, you pay a monthly fee (about $30) and they take it away weekly, or if its burnable, it goes on the brush pile until the pile gets tall enough that you need a bigger tractor to pile it any higher.

              Police… Definitely wouldn’t waste time calling them, the action would be over before they even finished their donuts.

          • MellowYellow13@lemmy.world
            61·
            23 days ago

            That’s literally what’s happening right now and the corporations are running amok, so this doesn’t work in the slightest

          • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
            62·
            23 days ago

            Right. Greedy and callous and serving the corpos and billionaires you unconvincingly claim to oppose.

            How does childcare benefit anyone but children and parents?

            • Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world
              1·
              22 days ago

              Are you kidding? Childcare benefits the economy. More people in the workforce full time rather than needing to stay home and watch kids, more money in the system than spent on childcare, and a more skilled workforce as people are able to stay in careers longer. It also benefits society as kids are able to have earlier socialization and learning opportunities and have better outcomes growing up.