Add your name to tell Congress to stop ghosting families! We need real
child care solutions NOW!
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Hey Friend– It’s the spooky season – and the scariest thing I’ve
seen this year isn’t ghouls, zombies, or vampires. The bone chilling
fright this year is that [ [link removed] ]Congress keeps ghosting us on child care
solutions.
After exploring solutions the last few years to fix our fragile child care
system, our elected leaders are now “new phone, who dis”-ing us and
families aren’t feeling it as the child care crisis gets scarier
everyday.
[ [link removed] ]*Tell Congress: Enough with the tricks. We’ve got their number and
we’re here to tell them their work is not done and they need to take
action now to fix our nation’s child care crisis.
How scary is scary? It makes grownups everywhere scream in frustration!
A brand new study from Child Care Aware of America found that child care
costs families more than most other household expenses (including housing
and health care) in ALL regions of the United States. [1]
That means the child care crisis is haunting families in every single
corner of our country.
These numbers get even more chilling when you think about rising costs on
families. This same study found that the cost of child care outpaced
inflation with most states showing the price of child care for two kids in
a center exceeding annual housing costs by 28% to over 100%.
[ [link removed] ]Add your name to tell Congress to stop ghosting families! We need real
child care solutions NOW!
It shouldn’t take a magic spell or potions to have the freedom to be there
for our kids, to afford high-quality child care that meets their needs,
and to simply have choices for our families. It just shouldn’t be this
scary for families.
Thankfully, not everything is as goulish as it seems. The passage of the
Inflation Reduction Act shows that our nation has more than enough
resources to build a high-quality affordable child care system. For too
long moms and other caregivers have been told that our country can’t
afford a comprehensive child care system that meets our families' needs.
But the fact is that by simply closing some of the loopholes that allow
mega-corporations to pay little or no taxes, we’ve managed to pay for
legislation that provides major improvements to our healthcare system and
fights climate change. [2]
The money is there! All we need to do is continue to close the loopholes
that allow mega corporations and billionaires to avoid paying taxes so our
kids, families, and child care workforce get the solutions they have been
waiting on for far too long.
EXTRA NOTE: Halloween is once a year, but the child care crisis is
yearlong. [ [link removed] ]So don’t forget to share this petition with your friends,
family, and parent/caregiver groups and ask them to sign on too.
Together, we can keep the pressure on and make sure we don’t get ghosted
on the solutions kids and families need.
- Nina, Lauren, and the whole MomsRising.org/MamásConPoder Team
References:
[1] [ [link removed] ]2021 Child Care Affordability, Child Care Aware of America, October
2022
[2] [ [link removed] ]Inflation Reduction Act Summary
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