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They need to bring back pensions! THAT will get the results they're looking for!
My uncle is super pissed off that my cousin's wife is staying home and not working.  Childcare is so expensive she doesn't think it is worthwhile.  She was making 12 an hour, and childcare was eating around 700 a month, after taxes she was spending half of her time working just to pay for childcare.    My cousin was vocally against it until he figured out that with her clipping coupons, not driving, not eating lunch out every day etc., they actually have nearly the same spending money.  
Pay is too low and everything costs too much. >

I’m amazed she can find childcare for $700. I’m paying close to 2,000, and we were on like five waiting lists when I was 12 weeks pregnant to even get a spot by the time he was 4 months old. >

Worked in childcare for 5+ years, I'm convinced the entire industry is on the verge of collapse any time now. We were dangerously low on staff, much less staff you want to trust your children with like 4 years ago and we were bleeding staff including myself. Then COVID hit, some other things and I'm amazed any childcare is even available anymore. >

When I moved here to Texas I did all the research and wrote up a full pro-forma on running an in home daycare so my wife could stay home. The math simply makes no sense without either paying slave labor wages ($12/h is average here for childcare workers) or charging ridiculous prices. Subsidy really is the only viable answer because I won't pay people garbage to work for me so we scrapped the idea. When Texas completely runs out of child care maybe they will change their tune. >

They’ll probably try to have child labor laws scrapped. No day care needed if the kid has a job. >

The plan as far as I could see by reading through the regulations to get certified is to just lower the standards of care. You can have an unlicensed day care here with up to 4 kids. So... Yeah, you could be an axe murdering chomo meth addict here and watch 4 kids no problemo. Also, for a state so obsessed with illegal immigration, that does seem like a glaringly obvious loophole right? Almost like the state is OK with it as long as it's low paid, unskilled labor. >

The four kids rule is in my state as well. My wife looked into doing it since she's a SAHM and with cpr training and other certs, insurance, and increased overhead from food/diapers/clothes/toys it wasn't worth even considering without charging an insane amount per child. The money just isn't there for anyone involved. >

exactly the same results I came to when I wrote up a business proforma. >

I'm not sure what a proforma is lmao. I just understand numbers and costs. I think the point where it was remotely worth it to us was if she charged 10 an hour per kid. And that still amounts to, a minimum of 20k a year in child support for a family. It's not worth it for most families when the secondary income usually isn't much better than that, or even that good. >

A proforma is just a financial plan, a breakdown of how your business would perform with numbers. It's exactly what you just said done formally. >

Because employers sure as hell aren't holding up their end with benefits like *checks notes* fair compensation