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Some More News: Why Is Child Care So Expensive?

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4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Hi. In the U.S., child care is too expensive for parents, but the child care industry doesn't pay caregivers nearly enough. Why is that? Maybe maaaaaybe we should have universal child care. Hosted by Cody Johnston Executive Producer - Katy Stoll Directed by Will Gordh Written by Shawn DePasquale and David Christopher Bell Produced by Jonathan Harris Edited by Gregg Meller Post-Production Supervisor / Motion Graphics & VFX - John Conway Researcher - Marco Siler-Gonzales Graphics by Clint DeNisco Head Writer - David Christopher Bell PATREON: https://patreon.com/somemorenews MERCH: https://shop.somemorenews.com AG1 is offering new subscribers a FREE $76 gift when you sign up. You’ll get a Welcome Kit, a bottle of D3K2 AND 5 free travel packs in your first box. So make sure to check out DrinkAG1.com/morenews to get this offer! You can get 50% off your new SimpliSafe system with professional monitoring and your first month free at SimpliSafe.com/MORENEWS There’s No Safe Like SimpliSafe.

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0:00.0

Young people. Disgusting. Terrible and disgusting.

0:07.0

I'm talking, of course, about little kids.

0:10.0

We all hate them. Don't deny it. We hate their little faces, their mealy little mouths babbling at you at the supermarket.

0:17.0

Every time I see a child, I throw up a little in my mouth just like you all do too

0:21.9

This is a relatable thing I'm expressing, but alas we also have to keep them alive

0:27.8

Because here's some more news little kids are apparently us from the past

0:33.7

Which is why it's a teensy odd that child care in the United States is pretty

0:39.2

expensive.

0:40.7

Depending on where you live in the age of the child, it costs an average of $5,000 to $18,000

0:48.7

a year.

0:49.5

Way more if you live in a city.

0:51.3

In 2023, the national average is around 11,582 monies per child.

0:58.2

That's roughly the same as a round-trip flight to Europe every month for a year. Except

1:03.0

you don't get to hang out with those cool French and their cigarettes and guillotine violence.

1:07.5

So much guillotine crime over there. No, it's just to have your kids exist. That's it.

1:14.7

But I guess that's all because of big child care making you fork over the goods while they

1:19.5

roll in your money wads. Except hi, hey, hello. Here's some more, more news. The average child care

1:26.3

worker earns just over $28,000 annually.

1:31.0

That's barely enough to afford groceries or health insurance.

1:34.0

And that's weird.

1:35.3

Odd, as I said before.

1:37.0

It's all odd.

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