Posted by Mary T. on June 27, 2003 at 11:38:03:
Subsidized child care for the poor has the best chance of succeeding and already happens. It's the middle income folks who get squeezed. I feel bad for the wealthy moms who have to give up their careers but those women with graduate degrees and maids have a soft choice, no matter what they think. On some level, we all make tradeoffs and choices. I want to know why the poor, who may never get out of the cycle of poverty, are more worthy of federal help than the middle income, who are working so hard to get nowhere. Who made those choices? How do we change them?