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Geri, how expensive is it now
to keep a child in a daycare center?

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Well, in the daycare centers
that we know the fees,

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the ones that we license,
and they range anywhere from $50.

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Which would probably be about the lowest,
and that could be for a half a day.

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(Max Roffman)
Fifty dollars per…?

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Fifty dollars per child.

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(Max Roffman)
Per child for a month, a week?

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What are we talking about?

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Well, it would depends on the hours.

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See, some children are only in daycare
for maybe three hours.

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8:30 in the morning
until just before noon.

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But, the most expensive privately operated
daycare center would be charging

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around $125.

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And that's an upper limit,
and that sounds like such a bargain.

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You can pay more…

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(Max Roffman)
I still don't-you talking

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about a monthly rate?

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Yes, a month, excuse me.

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In some daycare centers that have
federal funds coming into them,

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because they meet federal requirements,
these daycare centers can run up to $200.

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But in those cases,
the parents are not paying that.

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This is a state expense
plus a federal expense.

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And these are only offered to low-cost…

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(Max Roffman)
I could just imagine a mother earning
minimum wages.

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And paying $200 a month.
For Social Security, taxes.

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That's right.

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That's why sometimes they'll say it isn't
worth it to go to work because of this.

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It's unfortunate when you talk
about it being that expensive,

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but our children are the most important
thing we have.

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And yet we feel that the cost for daycare
for them shouldn't be that way.

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And partly I think that comes
from free public education.

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Going to school doesn't cost money,
and yet daycare does, so…

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(Max Roffman)
It occurs to me that that's another reason

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why the government ought to be interested.

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Because there- these cases of the mothers
who can't afford to go to work are going

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to end up on welfare.

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And the government's going to be paying…