My wife’s employer gave her three paid days of family leave after giving birth. Most employers aren’t much better and most people can’t afford to take extended periods of unpaid leave to raise their child. You are severely out of touch.

A Vermont for Vermonters is just as racist as Bajor for Bajorans.

It’s almost like we need parents to raise their own young children or something… not a solution at all…being around our own young rather than boosting our “career”(ego,wallet), what a radical idea

Corporate childcare ownership is an abomination, investment groups buying struggling centers to ‘flip them’ by cutting costs and raising tuition. It only works by blowing everything up. They may be banking on public investment to bail them out eventually, but in the meantime it’s the usual horrible-for-everyone-but-investors strategy

My wife and I were married here in 2016 when it was still SVC. Such a gorgeous building & property.

Would prefer it stayed a school but I’m glad they are doing something with it at this point.

“Why are all the young leaving” is said with the same breath as “let’s destroy the college system”. The deterioration of Vermont for Vermonters continues.

>Thank you!

You're welcome!

Thank you!

Yeah, because arresting all the druggies and putting them all in the same place with violent criminals, where they receive zero help and their lives are ruined as they're ground into the cogs of our prison system has been soooo effective.

How many hours of cable news does one have to watch to be convinced sticking that fork into the outlet a third time is a good idea? You seem qualified to answer that.

I’ve worked in the early childcare industry for 10+ years with at least 8 of those being in Vermont. And I can affirmatively say that wages are not competitive. For myself, and every other early childcare worker I know, wages are absolute crap. Any raise in tuition more often goes to those working outside of the classroom, ie the director and higher ups.

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I think that they don't have the lease version anymore (bummer) but it looks like they do have this still: https://greenmountainpower.com/rebates-programs/home-energy-storage/bring-your-own-device/

A battery in each house is probably cheaper, easier, more reliable and more climate friendly

Do they still have that program?

I would love to be able to buy it in a nice clean dispensary. Preferably one that has treats for my dogs like the nice ones in Mass. That would be a lovely treat for this empty nester aging hippy.

You still can dude. There is effectively a 0% chance of being arrested for that

Lmfao

Oh look. More Vermont for non-Vermonters. :(

I know this is slightly off topic, but decriminalization of psychedelic mushrooms would enable some additional environmental remediation efforts around farms.

Currently we're only able to conduct research on the ability of certain mushrooms to uptake nutrients with spores and aren't able to propagate. We know that they are really amazing at dealing with phosphorus, and that they are really good at accumulating heavy metals.

Drug laws have additional effects beyond just people using drugs

I am talking about what the person said above. He was saying $5 per hour for the care of the child, not $5 per hour for the employee. I am not referencing anything but what the person wrote.

I paid $200/week over ten years ago ($5/hr x40 hrs) and I haven't seen a rate below $300/wk in the last year. Do you have a link to support this stat?

The replies here are more evidence of the low quality of Reddit than a reflection on Vermont. The internet isn't a real place. Your neighborhood is though.

This does not give you legal protections.

Swing and a miss