80% of employers experience shortened workdays each year because employees' child care arrangements fall through, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures - Employee Benefit News, June 2003

U.S. companies lose $3 billion annually as a consequence of child-care related absences, estimates the child care action campaign - Employee Benefit News, June 2003

About 22.4 million households have at least someone caring for an elderly relative or friend, and almost 2.5 million of those caregivers are themselves elderly, according to the National Alliance for Caregiving - The Wall Street Journal, July 1, 2003