Congress stepped up and provided the childcare sector with a life raft, $50 billion in funding, during the pandemic.
William Warren
The Public Record
$50 billion, with a ``B''--in emergency stabilization funding to help childcare providers stay solvent.
childcare is basic infrastructure for our economy, just like roads and bridges that we drive on every day to get to work.
In return, we pay them an unlivable wage with few benefits, ask them to risk their mental and physical health in challenging work conditions, and provide them with minimal respect as professionals.
So to get the teachers we need, we actually have to pay them something closer to what they are worth.
$50 billion, with a ``B''--in emergency stabilization funding to help childcare providers stay solvent.
childcare is basic infrastructure for our economy, just like roads and bridges that we drive on every day to get to work.
We entrust early care and education professionals with our children. We require them to be well trained, and we relentlessly regulate their every activity with the children in their care.
So the job of the SEC is to protect investors, not the fossil fuel industry.





