Nearly 40% of Australian families can't 'afford' childcare
- Written by: Peter Hurley, Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
ShutterstockChildcare is unaffordable for more than 385,000 Australian families, a new report from Victoria University’s Mitchell Institute shows.
The Counting the cost to families: assessing childcare affordability in Australia report uses an international benchmark of no more than 7% of disposable income spent on childcare to determine...
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