Bigfoot vs. the Child Care Desert: Why Raising a Family Became a Luxury

Bigfoot vs. the Child Care Desert: Why Raising a Family Became a Luxury

Parents pay more than they can afford. Child-care educators earn less than they can live on. Providers still struggle to remain open. How can all three be true?

Dave Pederson talks with nationally recognized family-policy expert Elliot Haspel about why America's child-care crisis isn't a personal budgeting failure—it is the predictable result of treating essential social infrastructure like an ordinary private-market purchase.

Elliot explains the labor economics that make child care uniquely difficult to finance, how Richard Nixon's 1971 veto helped establish America's "free-market family," and what the pandemic revealed about child care's role as a load-bearing pillar of society.

They also explore:

• Why competition alone cannot fix the child-care market
• What New Mexico and Vermont are doing differently
• Why people without young children still have a stake in child care
• The missing value of stay-at-home parents and unpaid caregivers
• Why paid family leave must be part of the solution
• Why a subsidy without an available slot is not genuine access
• What a universal child-care choice guarantee could look like

ABOUT ELLIOT HASPEL

Elliot Haspel is a nationally recognized family-policy expert and commentator specializing in child-care issues. He is the author of Crawling Behind: America's Childcare Crisis and How to Fix It and Raising a Nation: 10 Reasons Every American Has a Stake in Child Care For All. He writes The Family Frontier, serves as a senior fellow at Capita, and is a fellow with New America's Better Life Lab.

WATCH THE VIDEO EPISODE
https://youtu.be/0GHqj1rZw5I

ELLIOT'S WORK

Official website:
https://elliothaspel.com/

Raising a Nation:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/raising-a-nation-9780197799291

Crawling Behind:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/crawling-behind-america-s-child-care-crisis-and-how-to-fix-it-elliot-haspel/13149188

The Family Frontier:
https://familyfrontier.substack.com/

Capita:
https://capita.org/person/elliot-haspel/

New America:
https://www.newamerica.org/people/elliot-haspel/

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The Bigfoot Manifesto explores progressive politics, economic inequality, concentrated power, and the monsters hiding inside American institutions.

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