”New reports from two government agencies suggest that the child care system is failing families, and not just during the pandemic.
”According to data from a Census Bureau survey, the pandemic introduced strains that caused 3 in 10 adults with young children — 6.6 million total adults — to remove kids from child care this summer.
”A Treasury Department report released Wednesday states that 1 out of 6 dollars in family income goes to pay for child care, which is more than the average family spends on groceries and close to double what the government calls affordable.
“ ‘The free market works well in many different sectors, but child care is not one of them,’ Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said at a news conference Wednesday.”
— ”New government reports paint child care system as ‘unworkable,’ ” by Joe Murphy, NBC News, September 16, 2021
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