The article, "Iowa's Child-Care Problems Show Scale of Washington's Challenge" is about families and economics struggle with child care. Child care centers can't find staff to work and help with children. The Omicron also plays a part in child care due to parents, children, and child- care providers contracting the virus in record numbers, causing a strain in the economy. This article also talks about democrats spending hundreds of billions of dollars to remake the country's child-care system. The democrats proposed to subsidize child care for many Americans.

Subsidy is money given to individuals or firms from the government. The subsidy is normally given to remove some type of burden and given to promote a social good or an economic policy. Subsidies can also be used to offset market failures and externalities to achieve greater economic efficiency.

I believe the subsidies will effect the demand for childcare by increasing in demand. I expect the equilibrium quantity to to increase if the childcare subsidies are passed because if the demand increases so will the equilibrium.

Childcare subsidies will affect the supply of childcare by increasing in child-care providers, raising wages for workers, and by improving quality of care. In a negative point of view it would lead to renewed scarcity as well as price increases for those who don't qualify for subsidies. You could palsy qualify if parents are working or engaging in other activities like going to school.

The opportunity cost in the decision to enroll your child in childcare vs. being a stay at home parent is _________ <- help please.