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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whatever, PP.  You're counting only the weekly stipend and dividing it by 45, totally ignoring all the other costs host families incur.  There is no host family paying within the rules of the program that can get their au pair for your "less than $5/hour."  Even the $8,000 agency fee aside, you can't get to less than $5/hour.  It shows that you're completely unfamiliar with the program and/or trying to start a fight.

And don't write off the inconvenience to host families of having to live with someone.  I am simply not going to provide someone with room and board and pay them the same amount of money as I would someone that doesn't live with us.  It doesn't make sense.  [/quote]

Im not writing off the inconvenience, simply pointing out that it goes both ways but you get a discount on her rate because she lives with you. I assume whatever other compensation you'd like me to consider are basically what she gets for living with you (room and board?), so all of that comes out in the wash. Even with the room and board, it is unconscionable that they receive so little pay for their work. Perhaps the money should come out of what the greedy agencies make, but don't act like APs are well compensated. And don't give me the "then why do so many girls want to be APs" line. Because they'll do anything to come to America. The same reason people hop fences or swim here. It doesn't make what you all are doing right. [/quote]

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