Yet that’s what the Build Back Better Act does with practically all of its family care programs.
Building Back America
Posted inHousing
Polite, Legal, and Unacknowledged: The Devastating Biases of Well-Heeled Suburbia
Build Back Better highlights how upper-income whites engage in discrimination every bit as harmful as that ascribed to working-class whites. It also aims to stop it.
Posted inTAP
Biden the Silent
Today on TAP: The Democrats’ ‘messaging problem’ is partly due to Biden’s avoidance of the biggest bully pulpit, one only a president can use.
Posted inWorking in America
The Great Escape
Why workers are quitting their jobs, after the trauma of the pandemic
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The Democrats’ Last Chance to Make Build Back Better Better
They can use the savings from provisions that will likely fall out of the bill in the Senate to make some remaining programs permanent.
Posted inTAP
The Unhinged Republican Congress as a Gift for 2022
Today on TAP: Recent events give Democrats a powerful message for the voters—positive and negative.
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Electric Cars AND Union Workers
Today on TAP: The Build Back Better bill’s support for both exemplifies the just transition we need to save the planet. And—surprise—Joe Manchin doesn’t like it.
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Time to Salute Pramila Jayapal
Today on TAP: Her strategy of hanging tough, then cutting a deal with House centrists to let Biden’s legislation proceed, has been vindicated.
Posted inBuilding Back America
The Stupid Technicality That Could Down the Biden Agenda
The Congressional Budget Office is restricted from scoring additional tax enforcement as yielding stronger tax collection.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Billionaire Behind the Fight for Lower Drug Prices
A former Enron executive has poured tens of millions into national drug pricing reform. Why hasn’t it worked?