The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor Highlight
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— Hamilton NolanAs of 2022, family child care providers were paid 85 percent of the 2018 survey rate to take care of kids. Consider what this means: not only does the state fail to keep its cost estimates current, but it boldly and without reservation declares, “We have determined how much it costs you to take care of kids, and we will pay you less than that. Deal with it.” It is an unambiguous example of state-enforced poverty imposed on an entire class of workers. The providers could, in theory, charge parents a copay to make up for the gap in what the state pays, but that wouldn’t really work in practice—the parents are, by definition, already unable to afford the cost of child care.
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