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Explain It to Me

Let’s fix child care together

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Education, Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.47.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

America is in the midst of a child care crisis. The cost of child care has skyrocketed to the point where, in some states, caring for kids in pre-k is more expensive than college tuition or a home mortgage. According to economist Kathryn Anne Edwards, it’s a market failure. So how do we fix it? That’s in today’s installment of our series exploring economic fanfiction and the stories we should be covering this election year. Read More: Kathryn's plan to fix child care Submit your policy questions! We want to know what you’re curious about. Credits: Jonquilyn Hill, host Sofi LaLonde, producer Rob Byers, engineer A.M. Hall, editorial director of talk podcasts Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a donation to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

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0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

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0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:29.0

Customer engagement used to be all nice restaurants and tea times.

0:34.0

But with Zoom info, you can engage with the right customers across all channels from one platform.

0:40.0

Engage customers at Zoom info.com.

0:42.9

Zoom info how business goes to market.

0:45.4

This is the weeds.

0:46.7

I'm John Glyn Hill.

0:49.4

If you're a parent or if you know one,

0:52.0

you've almost certainly heard about the trials and tribulations of trying to find and pay for child care.

0:58.0

This issue has gotten a ton of attention since the pandemic exposed how essential child care is for all of us.

1:06.1

Because so many parents work, this care is critical for a functioning economy, but access

1:11.4

to affordable child care was a challenge long before COVID.

1:15.0

My mom, when she was looking for child care for me, I was her third, I was her baby,

1:21.0

and in our town there was only one daycare center that

1:25.1

had an infant spot and they had one spot. That's Catherine Ann Edwards. She's a

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