Childcare costs are growing faster than rent in the U.S.

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNearly eight percent of American families now spend more than two thousand dollars a month on childcare, according to Bank of America Institute research.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThat share is more than double what it was three years ago.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistTwo thousand a month. That's a rent payment, Hank, except the rent is the one you can actually move out of.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFederal guidelines call childcare affordable at seven percent of household income.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA family paying twenty-four thousand dollars a year would need to earn about three hundred forty-three thousand.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe median household made eighty-seven thousand four hundred sixty in twenty twenty-five.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThat's a forecast with no sunny spell anywhere.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorCosts rose fastest in September in Nashville, then Jacksonville, then Phoenix.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnd employment in the childcare sector fell seven tenths of a percent from a year ago.

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    Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistSo prices are up and the workers are down. Where do you even run?