Day Care for $15.00 per day, Nationally - NDP Proposal

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That's kind of my point. I feel for families, I really do. The cost of daycare is horrendous! BUT...I'm not living high off the hog here. Though my rates are the highest in my area, as with all providers, the expenses come out of that. And those expenses are substantial. What's left leaves me able to pay my necessities with a bit left over. I don't know a single provider who lives high off the hog. ECEs are never, ever mentioned in these articles beyond the obligatory, token comment about making it better for them. I call BS.....people are only concerned about the cost to families. While I'm all for affordable daycare, I think everyone also needs to consider who's providing that care, the difficulty of the job, the long (loooooong) hours and immense responsibility on our shoulders. Why should we not expect to make a decent income from it....one that allows us a reasonably comfortable life? I'm really sick of factoring in at the bottom of the heap when it comes to the daycare debate. The fact is that it does cost money to take care of children...lots of it! It has to come from somewhere. ECEs have been known, throughout the existence of daycare, to subsidize this for cost for families by being so poorly compensated in order to keep the costs down. This was actually info I gleaned in one of my ECE classes, back in the day. If we were actually paid what we SHOULD be paid, no one would be having kids.