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uh... the
these uh... in uh... the new republic added this uh...
uh... current issue of the new republic
uh... is entitled
the hal of american daycare it's a uh...
it's its
it's it's a great piece it's a
uh... it's a pretty emotional reading uh... in in addition to being um...
really information about an issue that for
for some reason it seems to get
has had traditionally
very little
uh... attention paid to it in this country but let's
let's first just start uh... with the issue
of itself
um...
youth sunday night they've done uh... stories in the past about the importance
of the of div div dot of of children's development the first couple years of
their life
tell us about that a little bit because
it really is the predicate to why our failure to provide day care
in this country is
uh... so problematic
shore uh... you know we are having you know
doesn't make a genius to to recognize that the first
uh... you know early in life pursuit spirited you're going to be important
but in the last twenty or thirty years
uh... scientists and uh... used the term broadly to include
you know marathi turner researchers psychologists a biologist
doctors
i'm have really been able to pinpoint
uh... the way that the what you experience very early in life
particularly your first two years your first three years
uh... happening credibly battle for back
on how you will act and behave later in life of down to the level of you know
where experience is what you experience a must first few years executing his
pain
architecture of your brain
uh... and and so we know for a fact that you know if you grow up in a trip
nurturing
environment and i support environment and have a lot of good positive
give-and-take interactions with an adult as a baby
you're gonna cut your brain in about the way that you'll be you know you're much
more likely
ted not just to be smarter but i have a kind of you know if you go to the focus
sir
e-mail yo yo you that the first what they've with with a lot to local soft
skills that allow you to please
succeed in life whether it's in business or school or whatever any activity
website if you're not in that kind of department you're not getting that kind
of stimulation you're not getting interaction or were still you're
actually experiencing
uh... some kind of negligence or abuse
you're not good felt that scott and these are the kids are much more likely
to grow up when they get older
um... they end up in trouble in school
they end up in trouble with the law
and you know uh... it horrible for these kids it's bad for society obviously and
in the future is one of these people up and number two the dollars it's bad for
us because you know
top-ranked huber
spend that money upfront i'm making shootings kid there in a good preschool
and a good
invited and it can spend the money twenty years later you know in special
education and uh... you know in juvenile detention and
uh... unemployment annexure you know a healthcare bill obviously one of the
health problems et cetera et cetera
and and and all of this really has to do
in in many respects and i would say you know sort of uh... nurturing environment
we're also talking about this is something that really impacts
they in taxes
low-income
sort of in two ways one that if you're in uh...
maybe the middle
or upper middle-income you have a lot more opportunity obviously because
you're lucky of cash to send your kids to daycare uh... if u if you are
lowering come you don't have as much opportunity to do so
and we also know i mean that this is the disney company founders sometime back
uh...
that it was uh...
what i was doing uh... the optical for a couple of days
kit children of low-income
of families
enter into kindergarten with a listening vocabulary of seventeen
housing for your words
and that's how the billing company so the
the deficit decades lower-income kids deal with starts right out of it
in it's impossible to make it and make that up
calamity just justin euclid i mean you know if you're here in a low income
family
uh... like what is you can't find it a lot carter predicted
uh... daycare preschool for your child
uh... it because you can't afford it and then if they do anything they haven't
you been penalized because you can't get you know if you get that the county
i don't know when your kids grow up you know now they're they're they're now
were stopping just as it happens right away like it had the entertainer guarded
and they just they haven't heard of many spoken word in
everything we know about how
uh... kid
developed language
skills how to read how to write how to speak you know that's all about the
give-and-take
with adults about speaking and hearing and you know it's just it it it it's
tragic
and okay so
so what is the state of uh... uh...
road daycare in this country i mean how many how many people get it uh... end to
the extent that they do get it
uh... how do they get it and
idea i mean you're your story focuses around the city
uh... one aspect out so uh... the story is is just how
loosely regulated daycare is he in in different states aka guesses depends on
where you are there's no national standard here
down and the packers sanitation say that it is it was shocking to me and how
little information we have
uh... about day care and i think even at the level of how many kids are in day
care i mean we go
the number two i use it as census numbers but if you talk to the people
tend to go go tell you
they're not the most perfect numbers could think of their like add
based on questions of the survey edit in
it's been categories are a little blurry so it's not even just to make a blank
statement different how many children are in day care is actually pay typical
intimate but yeah roughly speaking there several million children
i have read a
who are
i had somewhere between you know
a paragraph from a more who are in medicare or someone other than their
parents
and again a it depend on you know summer someday the week summer every day a week
but them very large number of children and it's gay and and you know it's a
reflection the fact that unlike a hundred and fifty years ago
uh... the majority of
uh... kato have about uh... their mothers work a women are now in the
workforce i think that that you know i'm not a good thing you know this is is is
a very important to them
i think the time our progress but
you know we haven't yet to come to terms with the fact
that ok well if were not you have to darling of majority marketing he taking
care of
at home
biography of will who is going to take care of them and after we get the
crystal will conduct a carried out there
and the best information we have is it's not very good overall uh... their art
some great daycare is out there some small percentage but the majority of
them are mediocre debt and there's no small minority that are really horrible
and their horrible but because they don't provide to get through with the
need and the harlem if if they can actually be hazardous
uh... kids are in unfav
environment
and uh... this is again you know the uh... it is not something we would
tolerate in our public schools
uh... you know we ought to public schools i probably would not tolerate
this level
well call it a public schools but for some reason
we do frequently when it comes to daycare well this is uh... i mean
this is really the one of the big three takeaways of of your pieces that
uh... in in in in it
the police the rings in these different fashions that there is very little day
down
that there has been
uh... i guess over the years of a couple of you you cite a couple of times where
there's been attempts to uh...
increase uh... daycare but that it's not not really a national issue now
now in the nineteen sixties we started uh...
uh... headstart i guess it was and do you also mentioned to programs uh...
georgia and oklahoma which were i think
georgia was cited by a president ovr my i believe it was in the state of union
uh... when he t spoke about uh... universal pre-k but just tell us about
the plans that are in existence now and
their pluses in minuses
chores so although we don't have start
uh... which starred in the sixties
and uh... you know had tower was it
you know if you want to know what more we can take your word week hockey but we
can let uh... uh program that's basically for
working parents at their kid they re signature but we kept from you know
good stimulation whatever
hector did not that exactly head started something different head started
basically a berry targeted effort
uh... to help
very low-income kids from from from from from
background to put them at risk of filial air lekin give those kids to skills they
need
um... now there's a whole separate controversy in the cancer right now
about whether headstart really lived up to that potential or not as a program
but they are
apart from that but i think that omitted the un general of the other i'd be here
in terms of fulfilling the function of the day care is pretty good the problems
it's pretty small vastly just uh... a fraction of the kids who would be
eligible to be in that program
uh... we do the government does provide money
fifty uh... some people with the flu about paying for daycare this macabre
uh... trial date at the rate at the mouth full but if it could be
uh... child development
and you've uh... block grant
and uh... if that if if you make of the state of the state can provide vouchers
to it's a to people who need help pay for day care and that they're a good
program a promise doctors aren't that big and there aren't that many of them
so much ticket waiting list
for assistance with day care
um... there are tax credit the tax code you know if you have kids you can intake
so many after taxes and
there's an extra one
uh... he you know again that served the collider targeted more to low-income
families but that the bottom line is that we provide some assistance we
provide some silkair directly through pittsburgh but it's not nearly enough
to meet the need that we have
uh... which is much greater
bend the knee that existed when these programs came into existence now what's
happening in now
in these cloud programs
in georgia in oklahoma
enjoy oklahoma on their own uh... boat decided to start out what they call
universal pre-k program statement bank david brinkley program shipley school
programs
uh... where base for the government says we will help you pay for preschool to
can afford it on your own and these programs can be doing pretty well
they're popular
uh... researchers have been looking at the effects of evidence found the kid to
go through them
uh... and up better off
uh... you know that but you know it directly
they cost a fair amount of money
uh... d_n_ a lot of other thing that we're waiting for them
most state don't do that now uh... will be the fact about these two states that
are doing i'm in a it seems to me these
it wouldn't be the first dates that i guess would be doing it and you know
that in a dad no that's right that they need to get more conservative newark is
sort of the it's a uh... uh... you know it's a it's uh... it's a
big government program like ass
uh... about what it what a way to make of the fact that the states are doing it
in that it is
popular both in terms of
the opportunity presents of four
a national
other type of program or
you know however it's uh... it's administered
the fact that this visa programs that are taking place in residence
yeah i know i i think that is one of them anger many most optimistic about
the future
um... you know the fact that you do have george you do that he didn't have a
oklahoma do this
you know the idea of doing something
to help kids killing kids i mean i i i i do believe that they had a lot of appeal
uh... regardless of ideology
relative political orientation
and i think that the evident that we have on these programs and strong enough
you don't have you can be a conservative and you can look at these say you know
what i may not like
government i may not like to spend money but this is one of investment that just
doesn't make sense to me i can see the numbers add up
i want to do something good for kids and that's why
these programs have been able to cut you know
surviving packet to survive and thrive
uh... in states that you know a conservative states that are very weak
and not the places you would expect
and i think going forward that's just there is
and openness there there's at least an open mind about this and maybe a
constituency for doing something meaningful on early childhood
that get out of the sort of just is not going to just liberal it is not going to
just be the new england state
um... there is a bright decision for their com
and and uh... you know maybe something can happen over time it does take money
to do this right
uh... if you think about what the problems are with child care and you
look at what it takes to fix the problems
at the end the day euro we'd have to find some money and obviously in this
political environment
money it hard to come by and general servidor less
decided about it
but they can be done
and i think how are you know there's there's hope that i think over the next
few years maybe something will get xxx