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Respect Parents’ Childcare Choices
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL)
August 1, 2024
…Parents and families don’t just need lower childcare prices—they also need their caregiving choices to be respected. On that front, the Biden-Harris administration has plenty of room for improvement….
Their “Build Back Better” agenda promoted extraordinary subsidies for professional center-based childcare, while offering no support to parents who prefer other arrangements…. This…push[es] a one-size-fits-all “solution” that ignores families’ actual preferences and needs.
As the economic policy think tank American Compass reports, most Americans don’t want to rely on childcare centers…. And low-income and working-class Americans—those most in need of the government’s help—are the least favorable to center-based care….
My Respect Parents’ Childcare Choices Act…would ensure that funding is allocated in the form of childcare vouchers…. [These would] allow parents to pay relative caregivers just the same as they pay childcare centers. Married parents could also use these vouchers to support at-home parental care, as long as they work a combined total of 40 hours per week….
I call on my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to turn this bill into law…. If they really believe childcare is “one of the most urgent things that parents and families need,” they should be open to increasing childcare funding in a manner consistent with Americans’ wants and needs….