Democrats poised to overhaul nation's childcare, with taxpayers picking up the bill
Moderates back down from threats to delay spending package with assurances from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
About 60% of parents said they changed something about their work, such as cutting hours or turning down a promotion, because of a lack of But even if the contours change, the large-scale changes to childcare are expected to be in the final bill. Supporters noted that childcare reform was a campaign promise of Biden, who was a working single parent for his first five years in the Senate.Republicans balk at the proposal’s nearly half-trillion-dollar price tag, which will be spread over 10 years.
“Preschool is not all it’s cracked up to be,” Grothman said. “This is a big step toward the government assuming more responsibility toward raising the kids.”Government has toyed with taking on the costs of childcare and early childhood education before. In 1940, Congress passed the Lanham Act, which provided low-cost childcare for hundreds of thousands of children so women could work in defense industry factories during World War II. The funding dried up when the war ended.
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