The state of affordable high quality childcare

In December, the Globe published a article titled “The day care squeeze” where the author wrote about the challenge of finding affordable daycare. According to her statistics, Massachusetts has the highest average day care cost in the nation. Childcare for  an infant costs roughly $18,773 dollars a year which is approximately 67% of the average single mom’s salary. I found these statistics to be very alarming and it made me  wonder if, as state and a nation  we will ever be able to find a means to achieve affordable high quality childcare. What are your thoughts on the state of our childcare system? How do you think we can go about improving it?