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.

  • teft@lemmy.world
    9·
    4 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·
      4 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·
      3 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.