Biden Announces Plan to Aid Caregivers

This is about easing the squeeze on working families who are raising their kids and caring for aging loved ones at the same time, sometimes separately. But many times together. It’s about creating jobs with better pay and career pathways for caregivers, and showing them that dignity and respect that they deserve. We’re in a child care emergency, and it didn’t have to be this way. That’s why I’m calling on the president to get the facilities and the resources and the equipment that are needed, and get them to them now. Today, I’m outlining the third plank in my Build Back Better program, mobilizing a 21st-century care and elderly, childhood education work force to deal with the caregiving crisis. And it’s a crisis in this country. If we truly want to reward work in this country we have to ease the financial burden of care that families are carrying. We have to elevate the compensation of those providing the care — the benefits and dignity of caregiving workers and early childhood educators.