The Washington Post: Ivanka Trump’s claim that for half of U.S. families, ‘the single largest expense is child care’
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Families pushed into poverty by childcare expenses
Beth Mattingly, director of research on vulnerable families at the Carsey School of Public Policy, discusses how nearly one-third (30.4 percent) of families with young children are poor. To fall under the SPM poverty line means that a family’s income would be less than $26,000 a year on average, with variations by family composition and geographic location. Among poor families with young children, 12.3 percent incur child care expenses according to our analyses of the SPM. For families earning this little income, child care expense can be a burden.
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