Meet a millennial mom who paid over $22,000 for daycare last year — and had to quit her job when her second kid came along: 'We don't really have a village of any sort'

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5 Gen Zers and millennials who make more than $100,000 a year explain how they spend their salaries — and whether they feel like they've 'made it'

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Hunter Garnett (left), Corritta Lewis (center, in sunglasses), and Kavi Kardos earned at least $120,000 last year.

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Senator Patty Murray says it's impossible to keep the economy growing without affordable, well-paid childcare

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U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) speaks at an event to reintroduce the Child Care for Working Families Act, at the U.S. Capitol on April 27, 2023 in Washington, DC. The legislation would provides funds for child care and early learning programs for low to moderate income families.
U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) speaks at an event to reintroduce the Child Care for Working Families Act, at the U.S. Capitol on April 27, 2023 in Washington, DC.

Why America's childcare system is crumbling and its workers are begging for help

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A Navy dad was able to get 12 weeks of paternity leave through a new policy. It showed him just how much work goes into childcare, and meant his wife felt supported 'mentally and physically.'

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Kaitlyn DeOliveira (left) and her husband Jordan Heathcoat benefitted from the US Navy's new paternity leave policy.

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One chart shows how many more hours married women spend on housework than their husbands in 5 different types of opposite-sex marriages

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A few hundred supporters of women's rights gathered in Union Square to celebrate International Women's Day in 2019.

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When I worked at Uber it was painfully obvious that too many of our women employees had to quit to raise kids. I started a childcare insurance company to fix that.

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Siran Cao is the cofounder of Mirza, a platform for childcare insurance.

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Meet a childcare worker who makes $15 an hour and lives with 4 roommates to be able to afford doing the job she loves

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3 year old girl playing at daycare while wearing a protective face mask to protect from the transfer of germs during phase 2 of reopening during COVID-19.
Marie (not pictured) works with 3-year-olds.

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Healthcare, college education, and childcare started getting worse decades ago. Now we're all finally feeling it.

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A man holding a sign with Medical debt is unjust written on it, gathers near the Capitol as he takes part in the March for Medicare for All in Washington D.C.
A man holding a sign with Medical debt is unjust written on it, gathers near the Capitol as he takes part in the March for Medicare for All in Washington D.C.

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A millennial mom will 'basically do whatever it takes' to avoid a full-time job so she can be with her kids. Here's how she's scraping together part-time work and 2 side hustles.

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