June 2, 2021

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America Might Finally Get a Comprehensive Care System [[link removed]]

BY JULIE KASHEN | It is really quite a moment for American families and care workers. After years of meetings, calls, letters, tweets and texts to Congress from exhausted mothers, overwhelmed fathers, struggling child care small business owners, family caregivers, people with disabilities, employers, early educators, union members, child development experts, advocates and more, the U.S. has a genuine opportunity to build the care infrastructure we have long needed.

The Biden–Harris administration’s American Jobs Plan and American Families Plan taken together would lay the foundation for building comprehensive child care and early learning, creating greater access to home- and community-based services with a well paid workforce, and paid family and medical leave for everyone that would bolster women’s workforce participation, support healthy child development and learning, ensure people with disabilities can live independently, support aging with dignity, and ensure a flourishing economic future for everyone. In building up our care infrastructure under these plans, the United States would start the critical work of reversing decades and decades of underinvestment in the care sector. (To read the full article, click here. [[link removed]])

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