The Rising Cost of Childcare and Supporting Working Families

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As childcare costs overwhelm young families, more women are staying home, and families are losing financial ground. Has the time come for federally funded daycare? Should employers step up with paid leave, flexible work hours, on-site preschool?

As childcare costs overwhelm young families, more women are staying home, and families are losing financial ground. Gust host Barbara Bogaev asks whether the time has come for federally funded daycare. Should employers step up with paid leave, flexible work hours, on-site preschool?

Also, Russia opposition leader Aleksei Navalny has been given a suspended sentence, and a round-up of the tech stories we'll keep talking about into 2015.

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Credits

Host:

Barbara Bogaev

Producers:

Andrea Brody, Jenny Hamel, Sonya Geis