Category: Beyond Red vs. Blue: Key Issues at a Glance
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Podcast Episode: The Childcare Math Problem: When Working Barely Covers Daycare
Pip: There's a spreadsheet that lives on kitchen tables across America, and it has one brutal question at the top: does it even make sense for both of us to work? Mara: That's the territory Tobi McMillan maps out in a deep look at childcare costs — the math families are doing, why the numbers…
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The Childcare Math Problem: When Working Barely Covers Daycare
Why a second paycheck no longer guarantees a family comes out ahead—and why that’s an economy-wide problem, not a parenting one The Kitchen-Table Calculation It happens at kitchen tables across the country, usually after the kids are asleep. One parent opens a laptop, the other grabs a notepad, and together they run the numbers: take-home…