![]() Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren and Patty Murray, along with their House counterparts, have each submitted a major child-care bill in recent months. In his public remarks and his proposed budget for the 2024 fiscal year, President Joe Biden is certainly insistent about the need for a permanent answer to child-care funding. Read: The reason child care is so hard to afford No other country makes it work without a major investment from government.” ![]() As Annie Lowrey wrote last year, “The math does not work. ![]() The system desperately needs a large infusion of permanent public money so that programs can compensate educators well, parent fees can be slashed, and supply can rise to meet demand. Centers have shut down for want of staff, long waitlists have stretched to the point of absurdity, and the rising cost of care continues to exceed inflation. In fact, the industry is still down more than 50,000 employees from pre-pandemic levels. In other words, child care simultaneously is too expensive for parents and brings in too little revenue for programs to operate sustainably. Child-care providers have very high fixed costs due to the need for low child-to-adult ratios, so they can’t pay their staff well without significantly increasing parent fees (many child-care workers make less than parking attendants). The instinct to make for any policy port in a storm is understandable, and the American child-care system is stuck in a years-long hurricane. Since Joe Manchin and 50 Republican senators killed the bill, however, many policy makers have started following a tired old playbook: If at first you fail to make something a universal right, try making it an employee benefit. This overhaul would have put child care squarely in the same category as Social Security, Medicare, and other guaranteed supports: It would have, in other words, become a right. The act also would have capped all but the wealthiest families’ child-care bills at 7 percent of their income. When the House of Representatives passed the Build Back Better Act in 2021, it included $400 billion in funding, part of which would have paid programs enough to boost providers’ wages, in turn increasing the supply of available slots. Submarine EPS Vector by yayayoyo 31 / 4,429 Submarine Clipart Vector by cteconsulting 8 / 2,799 Submarines Vectors by valkos 18 / 4,602 Yellow submarine under water Vector by konstantinks 9 / 1,155 Yellow Submarine Clip Art Vector by DWiedemann 7 / 1,918 Submarine Kids Vectors by lenm 10 / 433 submarine EPS Vectors by nem4a 15 / 1,394 Military submarine Clip Art Vector by konstantinks 2 / 459 Submarine Vectors by konstantinks 3 / 336 submarine vector silhouettes Vector Clipart by draganmilenkovic 8 / 1,139 cartoon submarine Clipart Vector by lineartestpilot 2 / 181 Happy kids cartoon in submarine on Vector Clipart by Tigatelu 8 / 326 submarine EPS Vector by tshooter 5 / 2,370 Submarine in ocean Vector Illustration by jenpo 9 / 2,260 Submarine adventure EPS Vector by colematt 6 / 422 Cartoon submarine and ship Vector Clipart by Verzh 6 / 510 Submarine theme image 2 EPS Vectors by clairev 3 / 82 Cartoon Yellow Submarine Vector by dacascas 1 / 121 Porthole Vector Clipart by sermax55 16 / 1,541 Cat in submarine Vector Illustration by Bimbim007 1 / 70 Submarine Underwater EPS Vector by cteconsulting 4 / 5,429 Cartoon yellow submarine Vector by pangeran 1 / 255 Submarine in Water - Vector Clip Art Vector by vectorshots 1 / 217 Cartoon yellow submarine Vectors Illustration by Tigatelu 4 / 213 classical submarine cartoon EPS Vector by jawa123 1 / 193 Submarine Clip Art Vector by vadimmmus 2 / 835 Typhoon class submarine Vector Clip Art by AlexCiopata 3 / 482 Submarine Vector Clipart by smoki 1 / 21 Submarines Vector Clip Art by GUARDING 1 / 220 Submarine with sailor theme image 1 EPS Vector by clairev 2 / 152 Yellow submarine Vector by konstantinks 1 / 244 Submarine Clipart Vector by konstantinks 2 / 119 Submarina Vector Clip Art by inq 5 / 836 Transportation Vector Clip Art by sararoom 3 / 129 Yellow submarine under water Vectors Illustration by konstantinks 2 / 467 Summer break with grandpa Vectors Illustration by Aleutie 4 / 70 Submarine EPS Vectors by vadimmmus 1 / 360 octopus and kids in submarine Vectors by colematt 4 / 358 captain near the periscope Vector Clipart by Verzh 1 / 246 Happy kids cartoon in submarine EPS Vector by Tigatelu 4 / 549 unique green submarine cartoon Vectors by jawa123 1 / 51 Kid Boy Underwater Book Study Vector Clipart by lenm 1 / 86 Cartoon a kids in the submarine Vectors Illustration by Tigatelu 3 / 266 Cartoon yellow submarine with periscope and a porthole on a white background.For a brief moment, it looked like America could get a real child-care system-one that wasn’t defined by lengthy waitlists, sky-high fees, and crossed-fingers quality.
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