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Family Benefits: Economic New Wave
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CURRENT ISSUES
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1 / 1986 |
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Sylvia Porter
Sylvia Porter is a nationally syndicated columnist and author,
read by some 45 million people daily. |
A revolutionary new law in San Francisco obligates developers of new downtown office projects to provide either space or money for day-care centers.
Under the law, developers must include space that can be used rent free by a non-profit day-care program (including those sponsored by employers), or they must contribute $1 per square foot of office space to a special city fund.
Providing day care will attract--or retain--good employees, proponents argue, and costs will be able to return to work more quickly after bearing or adopting children and will not lose valuable time worrying about, or finding, adequate care-taking arrangements.
"Last year, there were 10,000 requests for child care in San Francisco that couldn't be met," Supervisor Nancy Walker, sponsor of the measure, told my research associate, Ellen Hermanson. "Women can't afford day care so they can work, but they can't afford not to work, either."
Lack of adequate day care hurts employers and employees alike. Respondents to a survey conducted by Child Care Systems Inc., a consulting firm in Lansdale, Pa., indicated that they lost an average of eight days a year because of child-care problems.
Day care is an issue whose time has definitely come, and the need, already pressing, will grow only more acute.
"Two-thirds of new entrants to the work force will be women," notes Dana Friedman, senior
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