Sen. Elizabeth Warren releases $700 billion plan for ‘free’ child care, wants to make millionaires pay for it

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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) has released a plan to provide universal free child care to every American, paid for by a steep tax on those Americans she calls “ultra-millionaires.”

According to a news release on her Senate website, the Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act would provide federal funding for “a locally-run network of Child Care and Early Learning Centers and Family Child Care Homes so that every family, regardless of their income or employment, has high-quality, affordable child care options for their children from birth to school entry.”

These centers would be available for free to people below 200 percent of the federal poverty line. Families with higher incomes would have to pay for these options, but not “more than seven percent of their income.”

Warren said that she expected this plan to nearly double the number of children with access to formal child care, from 6.8 million to 12 million. The senator argued that the current “lack of access to high-quality, affordable care prevents parents from fully participating in the workforce, holding them back from career and educational opportunities and placing a drag on our entire economy.”

Critics, however, argue that it’s not clear what exactly the “high-quality” national standards Warren refers to in her plan are.- READ MORE

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