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child care

NOUN
institution or home service involving care for children
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As Americans struggle with the overall increase in prices, the cost of services that specifically impact families — child care and tuition — have been rising even faster than overall prices.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 16, 2026

Meanwhile, 12% of Americans said insufficient child care options played a role in their decision to have fewer children than desired.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 16, 2026

Still, low wages remain a problem, leaving child care to compete with other pathways available at the same school.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

The services that define 21st-century middle-class life—healthcare, child care, education—have risen two to three times as fast as overall consumer prices since 2000.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 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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