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How Democrats Inflated Their National Day Care Fraud Bubble In Plain Sight

A brief macroeconomic history of a very obvious scandal

Jan 28, 2026
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Suspected Somali daycare fraud at the scene of last weekend’s shooting

According to the 2024 annual “Child Care in America: Price & Supply” report from ChildCareAware.org, the cost of child care rose 29 percent from 2020 to 2024 in the United States. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics seems to confirm this (see here and here, I let Grok do the numb…

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