07/08/2025
https://www.commondreams.org...
"We are the richest country in the history of the world, and there is no excuse... why we should not be providing the highest quality of childcare."
"40 percent of parents in America have gone into debt due to the cost of childcare."
"What should be off the table are children in America where we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country, that should be off the table; the needs of elderly people who are ..."
"It's gone and people say okay, hey, budget ceiling is coming. We're going to go through this again. That is a pretty bad way to develop budgets."