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The Devaluation of Child Care
reproductive labor is usually child rearing, caregiving and gestating. Child care workers are more than 90 percent women and they make on average about $11 an hour for enormously difficult work. The overhead of child care businesses is extremely thin so when the pandemic started you saw this massive flood of childcare centers closed but many have still not reopened.