Dropping Out of the Workforce to Care for a Child Is Astonishingly Expensive

Watch this video from ThinkProgress to see how the child care crisis is affecting parents and learn how to calculate the hidden cost of a failed child care system for yourself.

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Watch this video from ThinkProgress to see how the child care crisis is affecting parents and learn how to calculate the hidden cost of a failed child care system for yourself.

Victoria Fleischer is the Video Producer for ThinkProgress. Sarah Baron is the Campaign Manager for Early Childhood Policy at American Progress.

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Dropping Out of the Workforce to Care for a Child Is Astonishingly Expensive