The Biden administration is exploring whether it can compel companies that receive federal funds to offer their workers easier, cheaper access to child and family care.
The forthcoming directive aims to provide financial relief to families at a time when locating open spots at day-care centers or providing aid to a sick loved one remains difficult and costly. Even before the pandemic, more than 76 percent of parents said they struggled to access affordable, dependable child care, according to the White House, which stressed that the burden fell hardest on women and people of color.
Rice and other aides reiterated Biden’s past calls for legislation that expands prekindergarten, raises child care workers’ wages and provides new money for elder care — a set of proposals that Biden included in a 2024 budget that Republicans have unanimously rejected. Democrats tried, and failed, to provide federal funds for those goals last year as part of the president’s ill-fated, $2 trillion proposal known as the Build Back Better Act. After Sen. Joe Manchin III objected to the legislation, party lawmakers ultimately adopted a scaled-down version of the proposal that omitted many of Biden’s signature objectives.
Biden’s executive order also looks to raise salaries for child care providers, boost the ranks of home health workers for seniors and people with disabilities on Medicaid, and explore specific kinds of new care programs, including a pilot program at the Department of Health and Human Services targeting caregivers for dementia patients.
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