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Originally Posted by Kerplunk
There might be some wiggle room depending on services offered, but it might be a little tough.
As an example, a room for infants (1 year olds) need to have a ratio of 1 caregiver for 4 kids, so right there you need 2 people for a full day. At min wage it's $60 per child, not including food, supplies, space rental, extra time, and probably a whack of other things. The costs that I have seen are already pretty close to this number (if I make assumptions about pay and costs).
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Thanks for the info, that's interesting. So for cost cutting, as an example, does that ratio really need to be 1:4? For infants that presumably spend most of the day sleeping? I'm somewhat sympathetic to the idea of reducing child care costs as kids are important, although as someone in their 20s I'm a lot less sympathetic around tax time with all the deductions already available to people with kids. I just don't trust the NDP to have looked at market solutions to this problem instead of just tossing money at something that seems to already be wildly priced out of control.