As the Democrats enter debate over what will end up in their $3.5 trillion social spending bill, the House Education and Labor Committee released on Wednesday its priorities to aid children and families across the country.how it plans to invest a proposed $761 billion to increase affordability for education, childcare, and fight child hunger.
If these investments go through, according to the committee, 9 million more children will have access to free school meals by expanding their eligibility. In April, the US Department of Agriculture it would extend a free school lunch waiver program for K-12 students through spring 2022. That pandemic-era program was targeted at the approximately 12 million children who did not always have enough to eat.on Wednesday that found child hunger spiked in 2020, with 2.9 million homes with children nationwide not having enough food to eat.
The committee also allocates $450 billion towards making childcare more affordable and instituting universal pre-K. Most families wouldn't spend more than 7% of their incomes on childcare, according to the fact sheet. Wages would go up for childcare workers, the vast majority of whom are female and are more likely to live in poverty than their fellow working peers, according to an
I suppose it’s ripe time to exclude excempting children from killops too
It does not cost 1k a month for lunches, no matter how many kids you have
Just think we could fund something like this if we now didnt have to replace billions and billions in military assets.