Working parents are an endangered species. That’s why Democrats are talking child care.
State Library Ed. Note: This story was added due to the content regarding the demographics of the national workforce.
Parents have never been a smaller part of the workforce. That’s why politicians are targeting universal child care.
Democrats’ child-care proposals, such as the plan put forward by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) last week, target an increasingly rare breed: the working parent.
Parents make up a smaller share of the U.S. labor force now than at any other time in at least a century, according to our analysis of Census Bureau and Labor Department data. But it’s not because parents aren’t working. It’s because workers aren’t becoming parents.
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