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The U.S. spends more than $13,000 per capita on healthcare, more than twice the average of comparable nations.

If I can't find childcare, it doesn't matter if you take away food stamps, I still won't find childcare. So if my grandma is sick and someone has to take care of her, I'm on food stamps. But if you take it away from me, like someone still has to take care of her.

The U.S. spends more than $13,000 per capita on healthcare, more than twice the average of comparable nations, highlighting the high cost of healthcare in America.

In European countries, the bigger factor for getting women to work is having the right to part-time jobs. The U.S. is missing a lot of part-time workers.

The current U.S. healthcare system is criticized for not providing universal healthcare, unlike other developed nations, despite being the richest nation on earth.

Japan faces a demographic challenge with a shrinking and aging population, leading companies to invest abroad rather than domestically, which contributes to low economic growth.

The U.S. has been below replacement level fertility since the early 1970s, with record low birth rates in recent years.

Universal access to paid sick leave could make a huge difference. In certain cities, they've found as much as a $3,000 a year difference in earnings for women without a college degree who have a child when she has access to sick leave.

The U.S. spends more on healthcare per capita than any other nation, with drug prices significantly higher than in countries like Greece and Germany.

The U.S. spends more than $13,000 per capita on healthcare, which is more than twice the average of comparable nations. Drug prices in America are significantly higher than in other countries, such as insulin being eight times more expensive than in Greece.