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Published on Sep 10, 2015

The average cost of childcare in the United States now exceeds the cost of in-state college tuition.

And since the majority of children in the country live in either a single parent household or a household with two working parents, childcare has become a necessity for most American parents.

Right now, having a child is one of the top risk factors for a family to fall below the poverty line in the U.S., with families forced to spend as much as 40% of their income solely on childcare.