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The soaring cost of US child care, in 5 charts

  • Written by Heidi Steinour, Visting Instructor in Sociology, University of South Florida
Children can get quite expensive.silentalex88/Shutterstock.com

The cost of having children in the U.S. has climbed exponentially since the 1960s. So it’s no wonder the growing crop of Democratic presidential candidates have been proposing ways to address or bring down the costs tied to raising a family.

Most recently, Massachusetts Sen....

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