Are the Democrats Making Child Care Even Worse?

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🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Child care has long been a “textbook example of a broken market,” as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said this fall. How have government efforts so thoroughly failed to fix this industry? And does Biden’s infrastructure bill threaten to hamper child care businesses even more?

Guest: Claire Suddath, writer for Bloomberg Businessweek.

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0:04.4	that I don't know whether I'm Rick, Morty.
0:07.3	All myself.
0:08.5	Am I Rick?
0:09.6	Am I Morty?
0:10.7	Am I me?
0:12.0	Am I Rick?
0:12.9	Am I Morty?
0:14.0	Am I me?
0:15.2	I don't know.
0:16.4	Watch now on all four.
0:18.0	The UK's biggest free streaming service.
0:20.4	Watch and rewatch.
0:21.5	Watch and rewatch.
0:22.2	Watch and rewatch.
0:22.8	Go for me.
0:23.6	Compare channel four dot com slash verify.
0:31.4	Each day, Claire Suddith shows a better baby's day care and goes through a ritual
0:36.5	that is wholly unfamiliar to me.
0:39.6	A person with a couple of kids and 10 years of drop-offs and pick-ups under my belt.
0:45.9	One of the workers comes out.
0:48.4	The caregiver comes out with a little forehead thermometer
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