Back to the future and other commentary
Libertarian: Child Care After Corona
“Day care options are disappearing” in the pandemic, with even surviving centers operating at “limited capacity for a time” — the reason, Shoshana Weissmann argues at Reason, we have to remove regulations that are “nuisances in the best of times and deeply damaging in the worst.” Take Washington, DC, which has huge child-care costs but “decided to require college degrees for day-care workers, increasing costs further.” Wisconsin “imposes more than 400 requirements on licensed family child-care providers,” while Oklahoma specifies “the number of puppets that must be available per child.” It’s time to eliminate such senseless “barriers to work.”
