The Boston Globe reports that Lynelle Lee of Dorchester was easily able to secure free and then heavily subsidized day care for her first child, who was born while she was on welfare, but has been on a two-year waiting list and can only afford an unlicensed family friend to care for her second child, who was born while she held a job. Seeking to redress this imbalance by offering more subsidized child-care services to working mothers, Massachusetts Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham said, "I don't know anybody who is against child care." Commenting favorably on early education and the good example working parents set for their children, Wheelock College child care specialist Gwen Morgan added: "If the government would subsidize to the point where people could afford to pay on their own, there would be a more productive workforce, more taxes paid, and more goods and services."

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