[ [link removed] ]Katie Porter for Congress

While millions of parents worry about how they’ll afford child care, it’s
a problem we don’t talk about often enough in Washington.

In recent years the cost of child care has skyrocketed, increasing by 40%
during the pandemic, outpacing the cost increase of things like housing
and healthcare.

I’ve experienced this personally. As a single working parent, I was
thrilled when I found out that my former employer, UC Irvine, offered
child care on campus. But I was shocked that for just my daughter Betsy,
the cost was more than undergraduate tuition.

Whether you have kids or not, it’s an issue you should care about. We
can’t have a strong, stable, globally competitive economy if families are
weighed down by the cost of child care or parents can’t afford to work
outside of the home.

Last year I led the fight to cap child care spending at 7% of a family’s
income. And while that didn’t become law, I’ll keep fighting to address
our country’s child care crisis and lower costs for families. [ [link removed] ]If the
high cost of child care has affected you or your family, send me a note,
I’d love to hear from you.

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—Katie Porter


 


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