At this time I had already reduced my expenses significantly, and had little more possible without sacrificing some of my basic requirementsforquality of living.
No doubt this is true, but the report would have benefited from a mention of the opposite problem in the U.S.: the existence of so-called Davis-Bacon requirementsfor most public works, which set the prevailing union wage scale no matter what the competitive market pay forquality work would be.
Tricia Pritchard, of the Professional Association of Nursery Nurses, said that although there were loopholes for the "more unscrupulous providers", most nurseries offered quality child care with "high standards and requirements of their staff".