Michigan's child-care system is an utter disgrace — and it’s only getting worse

[unhappycamper]

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/jack-lessenberry/58682/michigans-child-care-system-is-an-utter-disgrace-and-it-s-only-getting-worse

Michigan's child-care system is an utter disgrace — and it’s only getting worse
Government
by Jack Lessenberry | October 1, 2014 - 9:06am

Half a century ago, I went to a poor, blue-collar public school system where many of the daddies worked in the plants. College degrees of any kind were a rarity. Layoffs were not. Yet so far as I can remember, virtually every time the school board asked voters for a millage, they said yes.

Not that anyone wanted to pay more taxes on their tiny little homes. No, our parents, by and large, wanted us to have a better life than they did. Those were the good old days.

Today, we, or at least our lawmakers, don't seem to care. We've slashed aid to education, especially higher education, right when young people need it more than ever. We've eliminated scholarship money and forced colleges to jack up their tuition, pricing many kids out of the market.

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None of this is exactly a secret. But here's something you might not have known: Our child-care system is an utter disgrace — and it's only getting worse. We live in a world now where pretty much everybody has to work, even if they have young children.

[ladjf]

1. Society seems to be collapsing in the once Great State of Michigan.

If true, was it caused by the collapse of the auto industry?