High child care costs leave Iowa parents with no choice but to pay up
High child care costs leave Iowa parents with no choice but to pay up
cbs2iowa.com High child care costs leave Iowa parents with no choice but to pay up
Some Iowa parents say the high costs they're paying for child care is changing their family dynamic.Jennifer VansCoy is a mental health therapist with two kids,
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"We pay more for daycare than we do our mortgage, which blows my mind on a daily basis," VansCoy said.
They pay $1600 a month for summer daycare, and $1,100 during the school year.
"What my salary was, minus daycare cost, minus student loans, I was bringing home, like, an extra $500 a month. Right, that's all we were breaking even, was $400-500 a month for me working full-time," she said.
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