Hello and welcome to Business Daily on the BBC World Service with me, Monica Miller, in today's program.

It's just astronomical to send your child to daycare.

Paying for child care can be expensive.

The U.S. is the world's largest economy, yet it caused American families much more than other industrialized countries.

You need a lot of adult humans who are well trained and well compensated to care for

smaller humans.

American child care providers are facing a tough economy and high staff turnover rates due to

burnout and low pay.

I feel like there's a lot of people who can't even deal with one kid at a time sometimes,

and we have to deal with like 20.

And for parents, it can be a key issue in the juggle between having a family and working.

Both Republicans and Democrats say it needs to be addressed.

Why is it so expensive?

How do other parts of the world compare?

And will families get financial relief from leaders in Washington?

That's the cost of child care in America, all coming up on today's Business Daily.

It's dinner time at the Harrison's house in Pennsylvania in the northeast region of the U.S.

Allison and her husband have three baby high chairs lined up in a row.

One-year-old triplets, Paige, Claire, and Leah are trying broccoli and potato pierogies,

a type of dumpling for the first time.

Now that they eat food, it's easier because we just put a little on everybody's plate.

But when they were on bottles,

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