Kentucky made child care free for child care workers
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#2Universal childcare is low-hanging fruit for America. Unfortunately, there is a vocal section (mostly married men) who want a stay-at-home mom and believe this will, similar to women entering the workforce following the advent of contraception and the civil rights movement, "force" their wives into the workplace.
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#3I'm usually surprised when no-nonsense economic incentives fly under the radar nowadays. You'd expect this, much like subsidized education or any other workforce support utility, to just be a hot topic in a media landscape that looks to shame these incentives, but I guess the state it comes from is complicated to put in narrative.
Re: Kentucky made child care free for child care workers
#4Universal childcare is low-hanging fruit for America. Unfortunately, there is a vocal section (mostly married men) who want a stay-at-home mom and believe this will, similar to women entering the workforce following the advent of contraception and the civil rights movement, "force" their wives into the workplace.
I'm from the south and have never once heard anything like this. Any source? It sounds like a caricature.
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#5Similarly, Quebec asserted that it's (then) $7/day daycare program paid for itself.
https://www.thestar.com/life/quebec-s-child-care-scheme-pays...
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#6Universal childcare is low-hanging fruit for America. Unfortunately, there is a vocal section (mostly married men) who want a stay-at-home mom and believe this will, similar to women entering the workforce following the advent of contraception and the civil rights movement, "force" their wives into the workplace.
I'm from the south and have never once heard anything like this. Any source? It sounds like a caricature.
> from the south and have never once heard anything like this
I should have added that I've typically heard it in liberal suburbs, not rural America.
Good, recent example is this thread [1] right here on HN (in particular this comment [2]).
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#7Universal childcare is low-hanging fruit for America. Unfortunately, there is a vocal section (mostly married men) who want a stay-at-home mom and believe this will, similar to women entering the workforce following the advent of contraception and the civil rights movement, "force" their wives into the workplace.
Yeah childcare is a casualty in our culture war, where one side wants women to be employed for their empowerment and the other wants women to stay at home with kids.
What really sucks is some European countries have already solved this dilemma by both offering childcare and paying a benefit to stay at home mothers, so parents can act in whichever way suits their individual situation.
To me, this clearly benefits society, but it requires each side release their hostages.
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#9Setting aside the philosophical free market questions, additional government subsidy childcare seems fine. There’s a positive externality of readily available childcare: one adult to many children is more efficient than home care, and parents being able to work generates economic production, taxes, etc.
But couldn’t we come up with a subsidy with less market distortion? A specific subsidy to pay for childcare for childcare workers will just cause the market clearing wage to childcare workers to drop to the point that only people with high childcare costs will work in the field. This labor pool is much smaller and people will tend to cycle in and out as their children grow to school age. At the end of the day society will end up paying a lot more due to lower liquidity than with a plain flat subsidy.
It’s like loan forgiveness for federal workers. Sounds lovely but it just ends up breaking the market for example further subsidizing already wasteful higher education spending.
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Do you really think there are that many rich child care employees?