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[quote=Anonymous]We pay $11k to the agency, $13k to the AP, $1500 for phone and gym membership, $2000 just for her car insurance, $800 (roughly) for gas, $500 for educational credit, $1200 for ticket home for vacation, and about $10,000 (estimated) for additional food, and tickets/housing when we travel with her on working vacations or vacation vacations, which is about 40k annually. She works 44 hours per week (one toddler), with evenings and weekends off. If this legislation went into effect, We would put DD in daycare a few days a week. AP would work fewer but less predictable hours. We would contribute to a phone plan she buys. We would not pay for the gym. We would not provide a dedicated car and would make her pay for personal gas. We would not fly her home. We would not take her on vacation. We would not buy her separate tickets to things while on working vacations. We would also have to withhold tax from her stipend. In other words, we would treat her like a nanny in a nanny share. She would have less money in her pocket. She would have less cultural exchange. Her schedule would be worse. I agree that reforming the AP industry is necessary because we all know stories where families are abusing the system or have one AP for five kids. But this is not the way to do it. [/quote]

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