Why Texans should demand lawmakers tackle the childcare crisis | Y'all-itics: May 5, 2024

$11.4 Billion. That’s how much it’s costing Texas every year for failing to provide adequate childcare for working families. And researchers at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT-Austin say the crisis should be one of the paramount policy issues facing lawmakers when they return to Austin next January.
Bottom line: if families can even find decent childcare, it’s costing them way too much.
In this episode of Y’all-itics, one of the authors of that policy brief explains why this issue is so important for parents and non-parents alike, and how it threatens the myth of the “Texas Miracle.”
Guest:
Steven Pedigo, LBJ School of Public Affairs

[@johnskiiz]

Childcare workers dont get paid very much. Then why is it so expensive? If you have to pay the workers more, wont that drive the cost up as well?

[@Koushi82]

get one parent to stay home then.