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Cut to the chase free preschool for everybody
can't work: Movie director Rob
Reiner is pushing for free day care for every 4-year old in California...but
the experience elsewhere says it would be an expensive disaster
by
Shikha Dalmia & Lisa Snell Reason, Chicago Sun-Times, pB4, 11-Dec-05 |
Free care is expensive care
Setting aside the inherent difficulty of accurately quantifying such
nebulous and distant benefits (of an investment in preschool supposedly
paying for itself), such calculations inevitably underestimate the ultimate
bill because they don't take into account the inflationary pressures that
the program itself creates.
The final price for Quebec's day care program is 33 times what was
originally projected...
Much of the increased spending has gone not toward increased access, but
increased costs. Day-care worker unions, on threat of a strike, negotiated a
40 percent increase in wages over four years...
Besides unions, the other major reason for the skyrocketing costs is that
when people don't pay the full price for a service, they consume more of it
-- what economists call the problem of the 'moral hazard'...
Category =
Economics, Politics |
Cut to the chase free preschool for everybody
can't work...
by
Shikha Dalmia & Lisa Snell Reason, Chicago Sun-Times, pB4, 11-Dec-05 |
But perhaps the most shocking part of Quebec's
(day care) program is that it is reinforcing the very inequities it was
meant to eradicate. Many low-income parents, who lost their child-care tax
deductions so that government could finance the program, have been crowded
out by middle- and upper-income parents more savvy at negotiating the
system. According to research by Peter Shawn Taylor for the Canadian
Taxpayers Federation, half of Quebec's day-care spaces are taken by families
in the top 30 percent income bracket.
Category = Economics, Politics |
Cut to the chase free preschool for everybody
can't work...
by
Shikha Dalmia & Lisa Snell Reason, Chicago Sun-Times, pB4, 11-Dec-05 |
Universal preschool sounds progressive,
but actually has pernicious unintended consequences for the parents and
children it seeks to help.
Category = Economics, Politics |
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