As a presidential candidate, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) was famous for “having a plan for that.”
And while her presidential bid has ended, she still has another vital plan: A $50 billion plan to bailout child care.
Based in part on her personal experience, Warren is a powerful advocate who understands the personal and economic importance of child care.
Last month, Warren shared the need for this wise investment in a Boston Globe op-ed she coauthored.
This week, a Medium article that Warren co-wrote with Senator Tina Smith (D-Minnesota) plainly says, “Here’s the stark truth: when the time comes, we will not be able to rebuild our economy if this country’s child care system has collapsed beneath the economic burden of this pandemic.”
“Meanwhile,” a Vox article about the senators’ position says, “parents are left wondering whether their children’s care providers will even be in business when the pandemic is over, making child care possibly harder to find and more expensive than before.”
This risk is real. As the senators say in their Medium article: (more…)
Eye on Early Education focuses on the twin goals of ensuring that Massachusetts children have access to high-quality early education and become proficient readers by the end of third grade.
