It happens after the kids are asleep: salary, minus daycare, minus the commute — is it worth both of us working? In 38 states, infant care now costs more than public college, yet providers earn near-poverty wages. Not a red or blue problem, not a parenting problem — an economy-wide math problem.

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Podcast Episode: The Childcare Math Problem: When Working Barely Covers Daycare

Pip: There's a spreadsheet that lives on kitchen tables across America, and it has one brutal question at the top: does it even make sense for both of us to work?Mara: That's the territor…