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Housing is the biggest one here, though, because it hits in two key ways: people need bigger houses to have kids but also they need childcare, and the cost of r
by acdha 3y ago
Housing is the biggest one here, though, because it hits in two key ways: people need bigger houses to have kids but also they need childcare, and the cost of real estate makes that brutal because people need daycare to be close enough to be practical travel-wise and it’s a labor-intensive business without great economies of scale so all of the workers also need to be able to make rent in the area.
This is a classic area where government support would make a huge difference: don’t have a bunch of small businesses competing with Starbucks on rent, and have things like healthcare paid for out of a huge pool of employees.