I am a district manager in the retail world. One challenge with part-time retail workers is that we sometimes lose them because of lack of daycare. My idea would be to have a daycare in the malls that would provide very low cost or no cost daycare for these workers. It could be funded by a large daycare corporation and/or the retail stores in a mall and the mall itself. Two ways I could see this is by having volunteers run it that work part time hours in the retail stores. Or that the retailers themselves could pay for a portion of the daycare as a benefit to their employees. This could be a charitable contribution by the company that provided the daycare (which is a tax deduction). And we would be able to have a more stable workforce. A big cost in retail is the cost of recruiting and training new employees. So the turn over rate would be cut down. The other aspect is if a major daycare corporation did this in malls then they could create more revenue and jobs in the community. Some retail establishments do this for customers why not for employees?
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Daycare is not charity, it's a business; people do it for profit. It isn't and shouldn't be tax deductable. Service jobs don't add money to a community, they just allow it to change hands, while a percentage of the money is lost to taxes. You only add money to a community when you get the money from people that are far away--like selling products or tourism or even financial businesses.
Personally, I think people should raise their own kids and avoid daycare. We've raised four and not used it. If spouses plan their schedules so their work is on different shifts, it still works and it gives each parent more time one-on-one time with the kids.
You're going to say 'what about single parents', my response is that our whole society is working to negate the necessity for people raising kids to be married, like 'a village to raise a child' and I just don't agree with that kind of society. Everything we do to make it easier to be a single parent damages marriage.
Parents come in pairs. Thats the way our adopted western-european culture works. And it works far better than the places were a village or a kabbalah or some other socialist organization raises the kids.
I disagree hrench, people should work if they want to, and probably have to.
An employer providing daycare to their employees, either directly or by paying part of it, is not a bad thing either. Yes, there should be certain tax benefits for providing daycare.