women, lowest since 1988. that is directly related to child care and parent and maternity leave. while we have a labor shortage, you go down any restaurant in new york and they are looking for work. child care workers are harder to find. child care, which was expensive, you said 20% sometimes, now it has gone up more. that keeps a woman or a man who is looking after a child at home and not working. absolutely. so, this is a market failure when more than 50% of your workers can t get to work because they don t have the social support system to make it possible. this is a labor market problem that the private sector should be concerned about as well. think about it.