Hi, this is Warren Alney. Thanks so much for listening to this podcast of To the Point,

and I want to tell you about another podcast that's available here at KCRW,

and that's the program, DNA, hosted by Francis Anderton.

Francis is well connected in the industry of design and architecture and art.

She used to be editor of an architecture magazine.

She knows the trends before they happen. She'll be able to fill you in on them. You can find DNA on KCRW's iTunes page.

From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

When child care costs as much as college.

I'm Barbara Bogave, sitting in for Warren Alley, and this is To the Point from Public Radio

International, a daily look at the issues Americans care about most. In the last 20 years,

the cost of child care has outstripped every

other line item in the family budget. Meanwhile, the quality of care is lower than any other

developed nation in the world. Some parents crunch the numbers and decide it makes more sense to

stay home. And despite the lean-in and feminist revolutions, the parent dropping out of the

workforce is still usually a mom.

Should the government subsidize child care as aggressively as higher education?

What should employers do to ease the work-life balance for both men and women?

Also on today's talking point, a roundup of the tech stories we'll keep talking about into 2015.

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