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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds like DC is putting small businesses out of business and increasing unemployment for mostly non white women.  That is just an absurd requirement and monetarily infeasible.[/quote]
Why so negative? This also encourages these women to pursue further education that will increase their income earning potential in the future. [/quote]

It doesn't make sense. It really doesn't. It's just not needed. It also significantly increases the cost of child care. Plus, you want someone to get a college degree to make minimum wage. Who would go into childcare?[/quote]
It increases the cost because providers can command higher salaries. I’m okay with that and would prefer providers to have education and training. [/quote]

Because you are an out of touch rich person who can afford it and don't seem to give a crap about the average working parent who already barely affords daycare in DC or the average working person who makes a living off of providing daycare services. This the requirement makes it worse for blue collar workers. [/quote]

And you you don’t care about the minimum wage caretakers while you make many times what they make.  [/quote]

Please share how you think a minimum wage daycare worker is going to get a college degree?

I think there are legitimate arguments about how to increase the wages of lower salary childcare workers (e.g. federal childcare subsidies, affordable group health insurance offerings, paid sick leave, etc.) but telling them they have to go get a 4 year degree to do the job they are currently doing is frankly cruel and does not come from any place of caring about these workers.

My God, this site is eye opening to how delusional and out of touch some people are.[/quote]

They somehow care nothing for the minimum wage or just over that workers who also need daycare/childcare. But hey, if daycare starts costing 3500-4k a month then the routine 2500-3k a month it already costs would be totally fine as their subsidized cost, right?

Heck someone making 75k a year isn't affording childcare already and that's earning more than double minimum wage. [/quote]

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