Walter Burns shares Ugh. Just paid daycare. $250/wk. My next in-depth look should be on how the daycare industry is killing the working class.

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  June 27, 2008 at 18:11 PurpleCar hey. I am out here in the front lines of the burbs and many of us are only just above poverty level.
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  June 27, 2008 at 18:11 PurpleCar sometimes we are kept there because daycare costs so much, that we can't earn enough to make it worthwhile for both parents to work.
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  June 27, 2008 at 18:23 Walter Burns says You got that absolutely right. Make too much to catch a subsidy, and not hardly enough to not feel it. The proletariat loses out again...
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  June 27, 2008 at 18:26 JeffersonEng says A great book to read is "Nickel and Dimed" by Barbara Ehrenreich...some cases of the working poor just eking a living just to get by. :-S
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  June 27, 2008 at 18:26 PurpleCar exactly
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  June 27, 2008 at 18:27 PurpleCar so we got a lot of women working as waitresses or nannies (under the table) or working the night shift after their husbands come home.
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  June 27, 2008 at 18:33 Walter Burns says Funny thing is, my wife was just talking about a second gig at Rite-Aid or something, just to make things easier. I'm picking up that book..
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  June 27, 2008 at 18:34 Walter Burns says I know it's life, but there's something to be said about this economy and pricing structure of necessary services.
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  June 27, 2008 at 18:36 PurpleCar I agree. something is totally wrong, and no one seems to be willing to talk about it.
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  June 27, 2008 at 18:36 PurpleCar Jefferson, I'm gonna look up that book too. Thanks.
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  June 27, 2008 at 22:43 iconjohn says I feel guilty on this one