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Universal childcare costs a lot more than 50 billion a year.
by humanrebar 8y ago
Universal childcare costs a lot more than 50 billion a year.
- emodendroket 8y agoAccording to the Washington Post around $90b. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/06/the-90-billion-question-do-we-need-government-supplied-daycare/?utm_term=.2f3647422d82 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/06/the-9...
- emodendroket 8y ago(I feel like it goes without saying, but the idea that $90b for a program that would seriously improve many people's lives is unthinkable but another $50b for what is already, a few times over, the world's largest military budget, for a country facing no serious threats to its own security, is a trifle not even worth serious discussion is a false one, if you ask me).