Messaging Guidance: Kamala's Child Care Plan
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Hi team,
Today we’re talking about Kamala Harris’ plan to cap childcare costs at 7% of income.
If you or someone you know has had to pay out-of-pocket for childcare in recent years, you know that this policy - if implemented - would be GAME CHANGING for American families.
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Below the graphic, please find talking points on this issue from our friends at Care Can’t Wait Action!
Child Care Talking Points:
The cost of high-quality early learning and child care is simply too high and too hard to find for many families.
The median cost for child care has increased a staggering 36 percent in the last decade, outpacing inflation. In some locations, the increase has been greater than 70%. Where affordable options exist, they are few and far between.
When families are stressed by high costs and uncertainty around child care, the whole family is impacted – from the child to the parent. Investing resources in the early years ensures children have safe, stable, and nurturing environments to grow and develop.
Child care is an economic issue and the child care crisis is bad for our economy.
When parents don’t have a reliable and affordable place to take their children while they work, they're forced to miss shifts and lose income, or leave the workforce altogether.
This disproportionately impacts women and limits their advancement in the workforce, because women are still depended on as the primary caregivers in most families.
With more parents pushed out of the workforce or earning less, that means fewer people with less money to spend in their local communities, and our entire economy suffers.
Additionally, child care workers – the vast majority of whom are women, and disproportionately women of color – are so underpaid, many have to rely on government assistance. Low wages also lead to high staff turnover, which in turn is destabilizing the child care industry and making the problem worse.
Capping costs for families and providing caregivers with better training and wages will lead to better outcomes for kids, parents and workers and boost our economy.
By ensuring workers are paid a living wage and allowing more parents to find affordable care and work, we’ll grow our economy by putting more money in more families' pockets.
The young of today are missing so much.
https://open.substack.com/pub/abforbes/p/my-incredible-childhood?r=yn8c0&utm_medium=ios