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Child care costs more than college in Washington state (www.axios.com)
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The average annual cost of sending a toddler to daycare in Washington tops $14,000, according to a new report โ€” and it's about $2,100 more than sending your child to the University of Washington for a year.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

A couple months ago I learned about the Comprehensive Child Development Act, a law that would have helped provide childcare all across the country. It made it to the president's desk in 1971, where Nixon vetoed it (the book I read underscored how Pat Buchanan pushed Nixon that way, though Wikipedia doesn't have that aside). Every single person who has had or who has been a child in the last 50 years has been negatively affected by that choice. So, now we're at declining birthrates. Why would anyone want to keep having kids that society wants no part in caring for them?