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Childcare will continue to be a problem for the foreseeable future. The cost will keep parents, mostly women, out of the workforce. Childcare used to be cheap

Childcare will continue to be a problem for the foreseeable future. The cost will keep parents, mostly women, out of the workforce. Childcare used to be cheap, but overregulation at the state and local level have made it extremely expensive. For example, extreme caregiver to child ratio regulations really drive up costs. On top of that you need a lawyer and a pile of permits just to open up a daycare center in several states now. Childcare could be a good job for lots of low-skill people, and could free up parents to re-enter the workforce. Instead I imagine we’ll take the easy way out like we always do: print money and give it to parents and caregivers, which will not solve the problem and will just drive up childcare costs further.

01100011 5y ago
How many of the unemployed have kids? Seems like something we should have data for.
golemiprague 5y ago
We should rethink the value of women in the workforce, sometimes I get the feeling that a housewife contribute to the economy much more than most women in the workforce. An average housewife who actually do the housework can do a lot of things in parallel, she can cook, clean, take care of children, help with school work, gardening, laundry and taking care of older family members. If you think about the amount of outsourcing one need to do in order to get all those jobs done it comes up to a cost which is much higher than the average woman contribution in the workforce. Taking into account that women almost don't create new businesses and therefore hardly create any new jobs, that a good chunk of them work in tax payer financed governmental jobs which their sole purpose is to replace the housewife, all those types of caregiver jobs for example, and that even in the private sector a lot of them do secretarial jobs with fancy names (I am looking at you "HR officer for diversity and inclusion"), it is safe to say that we need to look again at the role of the housewife in our society. Granted, it is an individual decision of each woman but I think society and culture should encourage women, especially with young children, to stay at home and be housewife. In parallel we should encourage different time line for men and women in terms of entering the job market and when to study. Women are best suitable to bring children to the world in certain ages, we should give them an opportunity to study during their child bearing days, namely their 20s and accept that they will enter the workforce in later ages when their kids are older and don't need so much care. A woman in their mid 30' still got about 30 years to work and can develop a serious career without the pressure of balancing home and work.

01100011 5y ago

How many of the unemployed have kids? Seems like something we should have data for.

golemiprague 5y ago

We should rethink the value of women in the workforce, sometimes I get the feeling that a housewife contribute to the economy much more than most women in the workforce. An average housewife who actually do the housework can do a lot of things in parallel, she can cook, clean, take care of children, help with school work, gardening, laundry and taking care of older family members. If you think about the amount of outsourcing one need to do in order to get all those jobs done it comes up to a cost which is much higher than the average woman contribution in the workforce. Taking into account that women almost don't create new businesses and therefore hardly create any new jobs, that a good chunk of them work in tax payer financed governmental jobs which their sole purpose is to replace the housewife, all those types of caregiver jobs for example, and that even in the private sector a lot of them do secretarial jobs with fancy names (I am looking at you "HR officer for diversity and inclusion"), it is safe to say that we need to look again at the role of the housewife in our society. Granted, it is an individual decision of each woman but I think society and culture should encourage women, especially with young children, to stay at home and be housewife. In parallel we should encourage different time line for men and women in terms of entering the job market and when to study. Women are best suitable to bring children to the world in certain ages, we should give them an opportunity to study during their child bearing days, namely their 20s and accept that they will enter the workforce in later ages when their kids are older and don't need so much care. A woman in their mid 30' still got about 30 years to work and can develop a serious career without the pressure of balancing home and work.