The Taichman-Young Knot Unravelled

The purpose of "The Day Care Tangle" was to illustrate the rather simple point that when programs interact, as many federal and state programs do, it is not easy to tell what the effect of changes to one part of the system will be on other parts of the system, nor on the system as a whole. Using day care as a case in point, the article focused on the financial incentives for a family to choose one type of care rather than another.