'Advocates for additional investments in child care are determined that lawmakers seize what they see as a once-in-a-generation opportunity for systemic change.'
that it would allow them to pay for everything from child care to mental health services. But the relief package only authorized the expanded credit for one year.being tracked by the groups are income-based child care payments, universal early childhood education, a minimum hourly wage and training for child care providers, along with paid leave to care for children and other family members.
Stephanie Cutter, a former deputy campaign manager for President Barack Obama who is now with Building Back Together, an independent nonprofit that launchedto support Biden’s policy agenda, said their polling shows that “the more people learn about what’s in the build back better agenda, the more support grows.”
A poll of registered voters conducted for Building Back Together between June 25 and July 1 in 11 political battleground states showed that 58 percent of voters provided with a description of Biden’s American Families Plan supported it versus 36 percent that opposed it. Among voters with children living at home, 74 percent supported it.
Democrats are planning to pass the second package along a party-line vote in the evenly split, 100-seat Senate using a process known as budget reconciliation, which allows them to bypass a procedural hurdle known as the filibuster that typically requires the support of 60 senators to advance most legislation.
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