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The Importance Of Child Care In The United States

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Many things can be done to help the working poor with child care. Many of the poor people have trouble with finding affordable child care that they can use while they work. The government could provide money to help create lower cost day cares. They should not be completely free, but they should be low cost for the working welfare recipients. In the past, the government has helped with funding daycare, “To help meet the need for child care, a 1996 federal welfare law included $3.5 billion in funding for day care.” (The Americans pg. 1117) The government has helped in the past, so they could continue to do so in the future. This would be a good thing because it would get more poor people working, and being able to provide for themselves. Something

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