Joe Biden’s childcare plan will benefit working families—but basic income would help even more

Joe Biden’s childcare plan will benefit working families—but basic income would help even more

With his $775 billion childcare plan, Joe Biden has run headlong into history—reigniting a conversation about family support that the U.S. effectively abandoned almost 50 years ago.

Biden’s promising idea, announced late last month , evokes 1970s-era, bipartisan enthusiasm for national childcare policy. But the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee is missing a second idea that struggling families need just as much: a guaranteed income.

Recent leaders— including 17 sitting city mayors —have seen wisdom in the universal basic income concept, and it’s no wonder. Poverty is the biggest predictor of engagement in the criminal justice system. A full third of Black […]

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