さすがはクルーグマン教授、子供を大事することの重要性をNYTのコラムで訴えています

クルーグマン教授も子供を大事することの重要性をNYTのコラムで訴えています。


１２週間の育児休暇
In January, both Democratic candidates declared their support for a program that would provide 12 weeks of paid leave to care for newborns and other family members.

フランスではGDPの1.2%を子供対策に使っているが、アメリカはたったの0.4%しか使っていない。
Our threadbare system of public support for child care and early education costs 0.4 percent of the G.D.P.; France’s famously generous system costs 1.2 percent of the G.D.P. So we could move a long way up the scale with a fairly modest investment.

何故子供対策が必要なのか？彼らは将来労働者となり納税者となるからである。
After all, today’s children are tomorrow’s workers and taxpayers. So it’s an incredible waste, not just for families but for the nation as a whole, that so many children’s futures are stunted because their parents don’t have the resources to take care of them as well as they should. And affordable child care would also have the immediate benefit of making it easier for parents to work productively.

日本は、それに加えて子供は年金を支える。彼が言うように子供対策は急務です。