child care costs in america
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Child Care Costs in America. Average Four Year old in child care $3,794 - $10,920 per year Average Infant in child care $4,388 - $14,647 per year. Monthly Child Care Prices Vs. Household Expenses. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Child Care Costs in America
Average Four Year old in child care
$3,794 - $10,920 per year
Average Infant in child care
$4,388 - $14,647 per year
West Region Includes: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
(American Community Survey 2006, U.S. Census Bureau)
Monthly Child Care Prices Vs. Household Expenses
Single Parent!??!
American Community Survey 2006, U.S. Census Bureau.
What can be done?
• Reframing- seeing the problem from a variety of perspectives and determining various possible outcomes.
•Consider Systems Thinking. “Everyday management thinking too often looks for straightforward cause-and-effect relationships in problem solving that ignore
the effect on, and feedback from, the entire system” (Zemke, 2001, p.40). Who are these price increases most directly effecting?
• “Leverage Points”- Small change can produce big results (Zemke, 2001, p.44).
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Zemke, R. (2001). Systems thinking: Looking at how systems really work can be enlightening- or a wake-up call.