Ballooning Childcare Costs Make U.S. the New Hardship Posting
- U.S. ranked near top for most-expensive childcare by OECD
- One family chooses stint in Venezuela over return to America
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Kacee Ballew, who’s lived with her husband in Pakistan, New Zealand and now Jamaica, sees one big obstacle to her family’s return to the U.S.: prohibitive childcare costs.
“The only thing that’s preventing us from going home is that we have two kids in preschool,” Ballew said by phone. “As soon as they’re in public school and we can just not have to worry about that cost, we’d be back in the States, or in a few years.”