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child care

NOUN
institution or home service involving care for children
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They’re worried about the cost of child care, which is so expensive that it doesn’t even make sense to get back into the workforce even though they could use the extra income.

From Salon Sep. 9, 2026

When he was asked in the heat of the 2024 presidential race about how he planned to address child care, an issue affecting families of all political persuasions, he stumbled.

From Salon Sep. 7, 2026

The mayor ran on a campaign platform of affordability, pledging to raise taxes to cover services like universal child care, and free and faster buses.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

The latest decisions will end UCLA-run child care on campus entirely.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

These are the qualities that welfare - to-work job-training programs often seek to inculcate, though I suspect that most welfare recipients already possess them, or would if their child care and transportation problems were solved.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich




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