Families are taking out lines of credit, working second jobs, commuting for hours and forgoing careers. It doesn’t need to be this way, experts say

In 1971, Congress passed the bipartisan Comprehensive Child Development act – a bill that promised to create a multibillion-dollar childcare system to alleviate the burdens on working parents – only to see it vetoed by Richard Nixon, who claimed the policy veered too close to communism.

Ah, the penny drops.