{"id":37477,"date":"2019-12-04T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging2.threadalaska.org\/thread-blog\/why-child-care-is-so-ridiculously-expensive-3\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T18:00:00","slug":"why-child-care-is-so-ridiculously-expensive-3","status":"publish","type":"thread-blog","link":"https:\/\/www.threadalaska.org\/thread-blog\/why-child-care-is-so-ridiculously-expensive-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Child Care Is So Ridiculously Expensive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"blog_content\">\n<p>Derek Thompson, staff writer for The Atlantic, explains the three broad reasons early childhood education now costs as much as buying a brand new Hyundai<br \/>\n    Elantra each year:\n    <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2019\/11\/why-child-care-so-expensive\/602599\/\">Read the full article here<\/a>\n        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Further Reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/11\/childcare-workers-cant-afford-childcare\/414496\/\">Why child care workers are paid so poorly, even though child care costs so much<\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","news_tags":[28,29],"event_category":[],"news_categories":[],"class_list":["post-37477","thread-blog","type-thread-blog","status-publish","hentry","news_tags-child_welfare","news_tags-education"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why Child Care Is So Ridiculously Expensive? - Thread<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.threadalaska.org\/thread-blog\/why-child-care-is-so-ridiculously-expensive-3\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Child Care Is So Ridiculously Expensive? - Thread\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Derek Thompson, staff writer for The Atlantic, explains the three broad reasons early childhood education now costs as much as buying a brand new Hyundai Elantra each year: Read the... 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