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Japan Is So Desperate to Increase Its Birth Rate That Tokyo Is Trying Out a New Idea: Free Daycare (www.xatakaon.com)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nice! really good direction. If this good results I hope more places follow suit.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Childcare is outrageous. Daycare for my two kids was more than my mortgage every month. Ive been counting down until they were eligible for public schools

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Unfortunately for many of us Americans, there is a substantial contingent of our government that would really like to do away with public schools.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Basically doubles income if it is free.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Damn, in Norway is not free, but both public and private kindergartens (1-6) are capped in terms of what they can bill for each month. Which is about 210usd

The rest is paid for though taxes obviously.