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Barack Obama: It’s time we stop treating childcare as a side issue, or as a women’s issue, and treat it like the national economic…

On the recordJanuary 20, 2015
It’s time we stop treating childcare as a side issue, or as a women’s issue, and treat it like the national economic priority that it is for all of us.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Advocating for affordable childcare in the economy

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