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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.
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.