It’s the fucking regulations and high insurance premiums that force child care centers to charge too much.
No it isn’t. It’s real estate costs and business loans. If you look at what these businesses are actually paying in terms of labor and compliance costs, it pales behind what they’re paying in rents and interest on debts.
You can find surprisingly cheap daycare options if you just identify a daycare center that owns its own building. That’s one reason why daycare through my local church is so cheap. All they’re paying for is people’s time (and they’re not paying much). But the people running that daycare are… very weird. And I don’t feel comfortable leaving my son with them eight hours a day. So I’m out an extra $1k/mo taking them to a secular center in downtown.
No it isn’t. It’s real estate costs and business loans. If you look at what these businesses are actually paying in terms of labor and compliance costs, it pales behind what they’re paying in rents and interest on debts.
You can find surprisingly cheap daycare options if you just identify a daycare center that owns its own building. That’s one reason why daycare through my local church is so cheap. All they’re paying for is people’s time (and they’re not paying much). But the people running that daycare are… very weird. And I don’t feel comfortable leaving my son with them eight hours a day. So I’m out an extra $1k/mo taking them to a secular center in downtown.