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When my wife and I lived in Japan in the late 1990s, we sent our kids to one of the nursery/day care centers in Tokyo. It was a dream (except for having to write daily notes in my awful Japanese about how our kids were doing). Most other industrialized countries have a system of pre-K and day care like that, but the United States never developed one. |
Now we have a fighting chance to get something like that, modeled in part on the excellent system of day care centers established by the U.S. military. President Biden’s next big spending proposal (which may be broken in two) is expected to include a continuing assault on child poverty, plus national high-quality pre-K and affordable day care (costing no more than 7 percent of household income). |
This would be a huge step forward for working parents and for America’s children, especially disadvantaged kids, and it’s a model that has been proven around the world and in the U.S. military. Here’s my column on why Biden’s most historic achievements may be his revolution on behalf of children — and thus on behalf of our country’s future. Please read. |
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