Women Failing to Get Hired in U.S. Seen in Childcare Woes

When Marci Price and her husband did the math, childcare services for their two kids ran higher than their mortgage payment in Chicago. They packed their bags for Indianapolis, where family could help trim that expense.

“It was going to cost us almost $2,000 a month just to have two kids in daycare, so it was getting to the point where it was like, do we even go to work?” she said. “We both like to work and liked our careers and our jobs, so in order to do that we had to go someplace with a lower cost of living.”