Nannies and the shadow economy behind New York's working class

You don't have to be rich to hire a nanny in a city where childcare is a crucial component of a balanced (and equal) economy When two young children were killed, allegedly by their nanny, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, much of the coverage of the crime prominently mentioned the family's class: their "luxury apartment" – complete with comparable rents – and affluence seemed to be a strangely consistent part of the coverage. But in New York, a city of working families and signi...