The administration added new strings for states to receive funding. This could have ripple effects for all households, not just those with low-income children. HHS said it would specifically freeze $10 billion in childcare funds to five blue states.
What socialism really means is public services for the public good. Using government to socialize the things that can help everyone, rather than allowing the private market to run everything in a way that preys on the public for private gain.
Rich countries contribute an average of $14,000 per year for a toddler’s care, compared with $500 in the U.S. The Democrats’ spending bill tries to shrink the gap.
Emily Badger and Claire Cain Miller
The New York Times
The thing that makes the Biden child credit so revolutionary, its universality, is also what makes it controversial. Policymakers disagree on whether all families merit direct financial assistance from the government...
Rather than looking at abortion as a personal, private decision and defending it on that basis, we should expose how the power structure is using restrictions on abortion and birth control to extract our unpaid labor.
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