What Elizabeth Warren’s Child Care Plan Is Missing
It would be better to support parental choice than to establish a huge new government program.
Child care for all?
Photographer: Bloomberg/BloombergSenator Elizabeth Warren’s proposal for a federally funded network of child care programs that would be available to all American families is breathtaking in both its ambition and cost. The federal government would be better off simply doing more to support parents in their decisions about how best to care for their kids.
There is no doubt that the cost of child care is a significant burden for families with young children, and prevents many mothers who would like to return to work from doing so. Proponents of Warren’s plan, which would cost about a trillion dollars over a decade, argue that by allowing more women with young children to keep working, the plan would boost economic growth.