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In San Francisco, a Family Earning $325,000 Qualifies for Government Aid

With the A.I. boom driving up prices, the city is subsidizing child care for households with high incomes. Even with the help, families say they are struggling.

John Marman and Natsumi Makiyama work in health professions that would put them squarely in the upper middle class almost anywhere else in the United States.

He is a therapist, and she is a pediatric nurse. But they live with their two children in one of the priciest swaths of the country, San Francisco.

They feel squeezed — and perhaps surprisingly, City Hall agrees.

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