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So with costs up elsewhere

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for food and fuel

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how are working families

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who depend on childcare

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likely to respond to

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these tuition hikes?

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I think families

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around the state right now

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are sitting around tables

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like this asking themselves

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does it make sense for

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one of us to keep working?

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If it makes sense

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should we work part time

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instead of sending our child

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to a licensed childcare program

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down the street?

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Perhaps we should entertain

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a grandparent, a neighbor

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because the cost of care is

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just becoming unaffordable

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to the point where

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those who have the means

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to access it will

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and those that don't

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simply will be

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sort of like

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priced out of the market.

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Because what kind of

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tuition increases could we be

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talking about in general?

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So, 75% of childcare providers

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answered this question, and

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they said we will have to

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raise our tuition rates

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at least $25 per week.

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That's between

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$2,000 and $3,000 per year.

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And it's already

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pretty expensive.

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It's already, I think

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at the point where

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some families can no

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longer afford it.