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I'm glad that you guys

Orion — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:38:02 +0000

In reply to Nice reporting here, Michael.

I'm glad that you guys enjoyed this. The parenting magazine I sent it to didn't respond to my inquiries. These are very good numbers though - it looks like there was an audience.

Nice reporting here, Michael.

Michael Maiello — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 02:57:29 +0000

In reply to Twin Burdens: Child Care Costs and Living in Seattle

Nice reporting here, Michael.

We have decided on a system that values work but, ironically, taxe work at much higher rates than it does investments. We have a system that offers assistance, but only in limited circumstances and that is bounded by bureaucratic rules so that $26 dollars can be a dividing line between help and no help.

If science is supposed to better our lot in life and economics is a science, then the point of economics should be to eradicate poverty and want. Yet, so often, we our talk about economics simply justifies poverty.

I'd say that this is a far larger issue than ISIS, by the way.

Thanks Orion. This is spot

HSG — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 13:56:03 +0000

In reply to Twin Burdens: Child Care Costs and Living in Seattle

Thanks Orion. This is spot-on. I would also note that it is also a national embarrassment that we allow McDonald's to pay its hard-working employees so little while it reaps enormous profits and the best solution is various forms of free government-provided childcare available for parents of all pre-teens.

Great post. Kinder care is

trkingmomoe — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 12:19:11 +0000

In reply to Twin Burdens: Child Care Costs and Living in Seattle

Great post. Kinder care is important and the government should be providing it. They do this in many countries.