Investing in Care at Home and Abroad

President Biden’s American Rescue Plan (ARP) provided an historic $39 billion to help keep over 225,000 child care providers open, bring hundreds of thousands of women with young children into the workforce, lower child care costs per child by $1,250, and increase wages for child care workers by 10%. The ARP also delivered $37 billion across all 50 states to enhance, expand, and strengthen home and community-based services and $145 million to help the National Family Caregiver Support Program deliver counseling, training, and short-term relief to family and other informal care providers. President Biden and Vice President Harris have also proposed major investments to increase child care worker pay and limit child care costs so that most families pay no more than $10 a day for child care as well as a comprehensive national paid family and medical leave program.

To implement President Biden’s Executive Order on Increasing Access to High-Quality Care and Supporting Caregivers, the Biden-Harris Administration has taken steps to lower child care costs for military families, increased pay for Head Start teachers, reduced the cost of child care for more than 100,000 low-income working families, made sure that more than 140,000 child care providers are paid more fairly and on-time, established minimum staffing standards for nursing homes, and took steps to ensure that home care workers get a bigger share of Medicaid payments.