The elite will jostle with the poor and illiterate
for subsidized day care, so strangers can care for the children we, privileged and poor alike, long to cradle in our own arms.
Ever since mothers trooped off to work in factories during World War II, the Philadelphia school district has been providing the public
with subsidized day care for infants and toddlers.
In other jurisdictions, I see people fighting against
subsidized day care because (a) young children should be at home with their parents and (b) other people should have to save and pay full price for day care just like they did.
Almost a fifth of its population are under 15, roughly half of the households still have children living at home, and infant daycare costs as little as $ 8 a day, because the wide availability of
subsidized day care in the province.
Advocates of
federally subsidized day care from infancy tend to shrug off this kind of data and argue that the next decade will inevitably lead to nearly three - quarters of families having two full - time wage earners.
We partner with nonprofits that serve populations in need — from pantries, to homeless shelters, to backpack projects,
subsidized day care centers and church programs.
«But if we really want to improve maternal and child health in this country, let's also focus on things that can really do that in the long term —
like subsidized day care, better maternity - leave policies and more employment opportunities for low - income mothers that pay a living wage, for example.»
The long answer has some uncharacteristicallypractical elements that
include subsidized day care andremarkable choices in public education.
«We got WIC [food aid], fuel assistance and
subsidized day care,» he recalls.