WSJ: It Now Costs $300,000 to Raise a Child
WSJ: It Now Costs $300,000 to Raise a Child
It determined that a married, middle-income couple with two children would spend $310,605—or an average of $18,271 a year—to raise their younger child born in 2015 through age 17. The calculation uses an earlier government estimate as a baseline, with adjustments for inflation trends.
Before Bill Nye the Science Guy became a garden-variety Progressive try-hard, he used to say “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.”
It isn’t plausible that it costs $18k per year to raise a child. Where is the proof?
