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\n\n“Even as the labor market has gotten steadily healthier in recent years, the American birth rate continues to fall<\/a> from its recession-era highs.
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Women tell pollsters that\u2019s not because the number of kids they\u2019d ideally like to have has fallen. Instead, the No. 1 most-cited reason is the high cost of child care<\/a>. Child care doesn\u2019t get more affordable just because the unemployment rate is low. If anything, it\u2019s the opposite \u2014 child care is extremely labor-intensive, and the prospects for introducing labor-saving technology into the mix look bad. To make child care broadly affordable would require government action; it\u2019s just not going to happen in a free market, which doesn\u2019t magically allocate extra income to people who have young kids.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“America\u2019s sky-high child poverty rate compared with peer countries is entirely attributable to our failure to enact a child allowance policy<\/a>. A better labor market helps marginally, but it doesn\u2019t address the fundamental issue that a new baby increases financial needs while also making it harder to work long hours.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/1\/6\/21046443\/economy-impact-2020<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Even as the labor market has gotten steadily healthier in recent years, the American birth rate continues to fall from its recession-era highs.<\/p>\n

Women tell pollsters that\u2019s not because the number of kids they\u2019d ideally like to have has fallen. Instead, the No. 1 most-cited reason is the high cost of child care. Child care doesn\u2019t get more affordable just because the unemployment rate is low. If anything, it\u2019s the opposite \u2014 child care is extremely labor-intensive, and the prospects for introducing labor-saving technology into the mix look bad. To make child care broadly affordable would require government action; it\u2019s just not going to happen in a free market, which doesn\u2019t magically allocate extra income to people who have young kids.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“America\u2019s sky-high child poverty rate compared with peer countries is entirely attributable to our failure to enact a child allowance policy. A better labor market helps marginally, but it doesn\u2019t address the fundamental issue that a new baby increases financial needs while also making it harder to work long hours.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[164,166,163,169,165,167,168],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-child-care","tag-child-poverty","tag-childcare","tag-children","tag-economy","tag-government","tag-population"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1997,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions\/1997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}