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Japan Is So Desperate to Increase Its Birth Rate That Tokyo Is Trying Out a New Idea: Free Daycare (www.xatakaon.com)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Nice! really good direction. If this good results I hope more places follow suit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Childcare is outrageous. Daycare for my two kids was more than my mortgage every month. Ive been counting down until they were eligible for public schools

[–] AFaithfulNihilist 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Unfortunately for many of us Americans, there is a substantial contingent of our government that would really like to do away with public schools.

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