Lots of Americans can’t afford diapers, but the White House has a fascinating solution.

[eridani]

http://www.upworthy.com/lots-of-americans-cant-afford-diapers-but-the-white-house-has-a-fascinating-solution?c=upw1

The White House started the conversation with Jet.com, a discount wholesale website, in the most public way they could — via Twitter. It was important for the White House to come clean about this longstanding problem and to make it known publicly they needed assistance from the greater community to find a solution.

Then Jet.com proposed some solutions, but they realized they had to start with bringing in a manufacturing partner to help make more affordable diapers a sustainable reality. Enter Cuties diapers.

Cuties discovered that the key to making diapers cheaper wasn’t even about cutting corners in diaper quality, but rather creating more efficient packaging.

So they looked into cutting down on packaging and even found ways to fit more diapers into each package. Eventually they came up with some great ideas, and Jet took it from there.
Together with the White House, Jet.com set up a system that allowed any nonprofit to apply to procure drastically discounted diapers.

They launched the program on March 10, 2016, with the goal of spreading the initiative nationwide through the tributaries of smaller, charitable organizations.

"We’re really just trying to broaden the network of organizations who think about delivering diapers to the families they already serve," Dana Hork, director of brand experience at Jet.com, said in a documentary interview.

[pnwmom]

1. Hopefully they're working on menstrual products, too. Toilet paper is provided in all

public bathrooms but feminine supplies are not.

And feminine supplies are much too costly for someone on a food stamp budget, and they're not supposed to use food stamps for those purchases anyway.

[dreamnightwind]

4. Good point. -eom

[WinkyDink]

5. It's the reason my mother always said that raising a boy was cheaper (she had only me, though!).

[senseandsensibility]

8. One of my most enduring memories

is not being able to afford sanitary napkins, and using toilet paper. I did this for a year. We were poor.

[pnwmom]

9. I also made that substitution

for a few months, because I was very young and too shy to tell anyone what I needed.

I know what a poor substitute it was!

[NBachers]

2. This is great! I sent a link off to our local Homeless Prenatal Program, a really dedicated group.

[marble falls]

3. Bush talked about "1000 points of light", the Obamas create them.

[global1]

6. Vitter Is Ecstatic!!!!....nt

[AwakeAtLast]

7. Could all companies do this with everthing?

I'm serious.

While allowing low income families to get less expensive diapers is incredible, every company should be finding ways to reduce packaging. Consumers win, the environment wins, corporations would most likely make more money. What's not to like?

[Avalux]

10. That was my thought exactly.

These drastically reduced-cost diapers with less packaging should be available to everyone.