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Childcare Costs More Than Mortgage or Rent. This Is the Crisis.
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Have you ever felt the crushing weight of looking at your monthly bank statement and realizing your childcare bill costs more than your housing? It is a staggering reality facing modern families, but why is a system so crucial to our society treated like a personal luxury instead of essential infrastructure? In this episode, I sit down with working mom and leading childcare advocate Paige Connell to pull back the curtain on the skyrocketing costs and systemic failures of American childcare. Paige shares her viral journey of transparency, explains how the math of the current system forces...
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Nobody was being super transparent about how much they were paying for child care because so often I think we're told we don't talk about that, right? We don't ask people how much their mortgage is. We don't ask them how much they pay for child care.
That's private. That's their problem, not yours. And so in saying it out loud, I think so many families and mothers in particular resonated. They said, oh my gosh, us too.
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