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.