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The Crisis in Child Care: A Tri-Sector Solution?

UVA Darden

This matter — which particularly affects women and girls — touches issues of health, income, crime, IQ, costs to families and the public, and an individual’s ability to maintain steady employment. Once you add fixed costs to those wages, it gets very expensive to run a quality program with skilled providers. Economist James J.

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The Cloud is Not a Railroad - An Argument Against the Vertical Separation of Cloud Providers

High Scalability

Would you really trust some committee or government agency to draw this line correctly? The global cloud computing industry was valued at $371 billion in 2020. A Cloud Provider Absorbs Huge Fixed and Sunk Costs. There is no structural separation as there is with a train service. So, the cloud is not a monopoly.