Are there government policies that will help the American family?
“The most helpful policy would be to provide subsidized universal child care. Child care costs rival cost of tuition at 4-year colleges in the U.S. and the average worker spends 25% of their annual income on child care. To have a thriving economy, we need care supports for families not only to disperse the cost of raising children, which is a public good, but also to alleviate the immense stress of work-family conflict that falls especially on mothers,” said Daniel L. Carlson, associate professor of family, health and policy in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Utah.