How the Democratic Child-Care Proposal Hurts Families
The Democratic child-care proposal now working its way through Congress combines bad ideas from the Affordable Care Act with even worse ideas from the 1990s’ welfare reform. Despite worthy intentions, it will drive up costs for many middle-class families while providing no benefit at all to the poorest and most vulnerable children. If lawmakers do not fix these design problems, they could wreak havoc on many of the families they are trying to help.
Unlike most other developed countries, the U.S. provides virtually no help for parents who . Parents more than $15,000 a year on average for a spot in a licensed day-care center. And those who can’t afford such a steep price are forced to patch together care from a variety of informal child-care providers or to
