[toomuchtodo]

It's a policy failure. Government should've paid a parent to stay home and provide childcare for their kids until under 5s could be vaccinated, instead of what we have now, which is a broken, dysfunctional childcare system attempting to keep itself together (and failing, both due to wages being too low to make the work worthwhile, spread of COVID, etc).

I don't know how you convince anyone in the current environment to be a childcare provider or teacher, when there are robust alternative employment options available that pay more for a better work environment.

[rdtwo]

In the us we’re still a in 1950s Backwards mindset that a woman’s place is at home with the kids in the kitchen and our government services are based around that. At the same time it’s basically impossible to not be poor without two incomes.