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Tuesday, May 16th, 2023

For-Profit Child Care Chains See Opportunity to Monopolize Imperiled Industry

Author:     Tyler Walicek
Source:     truthout
Publication Date:     13 May 2023
 Link: For-Profit Child Care Chains See Opportunity to Monopolize Imperiled Industry
Stephan:  

By any standard by which you care to measure the United States does not like, does not care for, and does not support family values, or family wellbeing. The endless crap you hear politicians spewing out, be they Democrats or Republicans is just that, crap. The objectively verifiable hard facts tell the real truth. Of the top 41 developed nations in the world the United States ranks 40 in child care. And when you look at maternal mortality, or infant mortality, as two other examples, it is pretty much the same. So when you hear a politician telling you how much they support family wellbeing you know, with a few exceptions like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, or Katie Porter, they are lying to your face. And now the whole thing is being turned into another profit scam.

On April 18, the Biden administration announced a set of executive orders aimed at mitigating the ongoing crises that have wracked the U.S. child care industry. At first glance, it appeared that President Joe Biden was taking steps toward fulfilling a longtime promise of his campaign and revisiting a priority of his signature (and failed) “Build Back Better” (BBB) initiative. While the press conference made for flattering PR, that was the extent of the orders’ utility: Among the more than 50 decrees, none mandated anything close to transformational changes. Biden’s directives to federal agencies contained a lot of “issuing guidance,” “consider[ing]” and “encouraging.” In other words, they chiefly amounted to nonbinding gestures and tinkering with existing policy.

The most impactful order stipulated increased pay and benefits for Head Start program educators — certainly welcome. But the package was a far cry from the ambitions of BBB or campaign rhetoric. Even the staid and stalwart Associated Press ventured that the orders’ “impact would be limited and possess more of a symbolic weight about what’s possible.”

Meanwhile, metrics of child care availability, affordability and quality are […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Tuesday, May 16, 2023 at 5:34 am

    Damned Republicans want to get children to start believing them when they are so young that they have not yet discovered methods to decern the truth, from the lies which the Republicans spew out.