Sentences with phrase «care worker productivity»

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«Recent studies by Birnbaum et al., Rice et al., and Florence et al. estimate sizeable costs of health care, criminal justice, and lost worker productivity,» he wrote.

In the United State, 3 - 5 million people have Alzheimer's disease, costing $ 24.6 billion per year for health care and an additional $ 36.5 billion per year for lost productivity, worker absenteeism, and replacement.

Among them are deleterious effects on children of unregulated and often substandard childcare; [9] lost productivity for employers due to parents missing work to handle gaps in childcare or to care for a sick child; [10] lost wages and reduced retirement benefits for parents who have to drop out of the labor market to provide at - home care for their young children; [11] a substantial downward pressure on the wages of childcare workers with effects on the quality and stability of the childcare workforce; [12] and lost opportunities for further education, [13] college savings, and other investments that working parents could make in themselves and their children but can not afford because they are spending most or all of their disposable income on childcare.

According to a Center for American Progress report examining the largest school districts in the country, schools are closed for an average of 29 days each school year — not including summer recess — which is 13 days longer than the average private sector worker has in paid leave.58 Not only do days off increase the cost of child care, but the short length of the school day also decreases economic productivity when parents have to take time off from work or when parents with elementary school - age children opt out of full - time employment in order to accommodate their children's schedules.59

They have a better child care system, more vacation and more free time; they also have a higher rate of unionization, higher unemployment rate (it's particularly dismal for young workers), lower productivity, and a growing discord between the (largely immigrant) poor and the rest of the country.