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[quote=Anonymous]I believe the new policies the federal government is floating that will pay aupairs $18/hr and only allow host families to deduct $10/day for food will greatly discourage families from hosting. 
I cannot think of a reason why I would host an aupair and pay $18/hr while providing car access, cellphone and gym memberships on top of it.  It's so much more expensive than daycare at that point. The only reason why we tolerated someone living in our home and the extra mental 'load' of hosting was because financially, it was about the same or less than daycare. 
I assume the extremely wealthy families may still host but the program will shrink to where it's simply not profitable for some agencies to continue the programs as they are now. 
I think the program needs an overhaul. I wouldn't have started with wage. I would have started with capping agency/company fees. Otherwise, you have priced out the vast majority of families. 
It's one of the only visas for unskilled young workers and I can imagine dropping from 20,000 visas to 1000 a year will make it difficult for applicants to get an aupair visa.[/quote]

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