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The paper explains the swell--the biggest increase in the past 20 years--as a function of the booming economy's job creation and of the slowing down in the late '90s of the flight of manufacturing jobs to other countries.
Liberal child advocates, the Children's Defense Fund prominent among them, regard the funding--$20 billion, available over six years--as almost surely insufficient to offer the poor a true choice of quality day care.