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May 13, 2008Military Child Care: A Government Success Story |
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From Ascribe Newsfeed: When politicians make speeches celebrating Armed Forces Day, they seldom discuss the military child care system. But this is an area in which the military has a lot to teach the civilian world. Indeed, the transformation of child care in the military is one of the government success stories of the past 20 years. The annual employee turnover rate was 300 percent, exposing soldiers' children to the constant churn of new and untrained child care workers. Within 15 years, the military went from having centers that didn't even meet basic health codes to having the highest quality child care in the United States. In the civilian world, only 10 percent of all full-time employees have access to employer-provided child care centers, a figure that falls to just 3 percent for men and women earning less than $15.00 per hour. All child care workers in the military receive standardized training and support, and must undergo extensive background checks. In contrast, less than 10 percent of all day care centers and less than 1 percent of in-home day care facilities in the private sector are accredited. Families earning up to $23,000 per year pay between $40 and $53 per week per child. AScribe transmits news releases directly to newsroom computer systems and desktops of major media organizations via a supremely trusted channel - The Associated Press.
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