Joe Biden’s “21st Century Caregiving and Education Workforce” plan would invest $775 billion over 10 years to rebuild and fortify the nation’s caregiving economy.
WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joe Biden announced a sweeping new plan Tuesday that aims to fundamentally shift the way American families care for each other, both at the beginning of life and at the end.
Speaking in New Castle, Del., Biden said he knew firsthand what it was like to struggle to afford child care, as well as what it was like to care for aging parents at home in the last months of their lives. "We cared for our parents at the end. My dad was months in hospice in our home, same with my mom," Biden said, adding that his whole family had cared for his eldest son, Beau Biden, before he died of brain cancer in 2015.
The first thing Biden pledged to do was provide emergency funding to state, local and tribal governments, enabling them to keep struggling child-care centers and home-care workers afloat throughout the coronavirus pandemic. Both child-care and elder-care providers have been especially hard hit by the deadly virus, as millions of families have opted not to send their children to daycare for fear of infection, and older Americans have chosen to isolate themselves to reduce risk.
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