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How a small change to a New Jersey state law could make affordable childcare available to more families

Episode Summary

The study shows some parents in New Jersey pay as much as 30% of their income on childcare, while others have dropped out of the workforce altogether.

Episode Notes

As childcare becomes increasingly expensive, a study from the Rutgers Center for Women and Work, a member of the First 1,000 Days Policy Coalition, shows that changing the income requirement for childcare subsidies would help tens of thousands of working parents.  Debra Lancaster, the center's Executive Director and Becky Logue-Conroy, a research analyst at the center, joined WNYC host Michael Hill.