Day-care costs through the roof
The demand for day-care for children in the Netherlands has risen explosively. That is a success for the Dutch government, which relaxed its subsidy policies in order to enable more women to participate in the labour market. But the success has a downside: last year the cost was 500 million euros over the budget. So is day-care really a success, or has it become a problem?
Read the article: Radio Netherlands, 21 March 2008


