It's Tuesday, January 3rd. I'm wanting to tell over.

I'm Josie Deffy-Race. I'm Trayvell Anderson.

And I'm Priyanka Eribindi and this is What a Day.

Welcome you all to the year that we are definitely going to leave Twitter once and for all.

Doug. Cool. Does that mean that you have figured out how to use Mastodon?

I have no idea what the Fediverse is.

And at this point, I am just too afraid to ask.

Truly. Happy New Year, Wadsquad. We hope you had a safe, peaceful and regenerative holiday season.

Yeah. Y'all ate all the food, so I feel real good.

And now that 2022 is in the history books, far away, we are looking forward to bringing you

another year of What a Day. No matter what 2023 has in store for all of us, but I mean,

we're hoping it's good. Just a little bright, you know. We're just going to spend this special

episode talking about the one big story will each be following this year.

Okay, so I'm going to start things off, along with all things, prisons and prosecutors.

Here's a story I hope to keep an eye on this year. And I say hope because it doesn't actually

have the attention it should quite yet, but if I get my new year's wish, it'll keep gaining traction.

And that is childcare, particularly early childcare. A critical issue.

Truly. Yeah, seriously. Hearing parents talk about parenting is criminally boring.

I know that, you know that, we all know that. But one thing we've learned in the COVID era is just how

absurd our childcare situation is in this country. It's really been driven home. Daycare is

prohibitively expensive. Basically, the same cost as I would imagine it would be to live in the

Ritz-Karleton full time. It's what I pay every month for someone who's like my children.

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