Babysitting rates surged nearly 10% last year

Planet Money did a story about the "very weird, very broken market for day care"

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/02/1153931108/day-care-market-ex...

"The pandemic-era need for "configurable care" — perhaps a babysitter two days a week, and other arrangements for the rest — has waned as employers yank folks back into the workplace"