
75: NY Times Columnist Paul Krugman
The Al Franken Podcast
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The Economics of Spending on Children
The average european country spends seven thousand dollars subsidizing child care per child. In the united states is 500 dollars, ok? I had often seen those numbers, but i alwas looking at the support for for non, non elderly families. And most countries in the western world spend something like five % of gdp on that, and we spend under two,. where we're just off the charts, a stingy, on helping people who aren't senior citizens.
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