For working families with small children, my budget guarantees affordable, quality child care.

Most families will pay less than $10 a day per child, saving millions of folks as much as $7,000 a year.

That’s a lot of breathing room for young families who need it most.

People don’t realize there are cracks in the #Aging & #Disability care system until they are STUCK in them.

Accessing long-term care is THE issue being discussed in every family around the country. Having clear solutions will help anyone running for office WIN

#CareCantWait

This is a BIG deal for people with home care services. Biden tried to expand Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services under Build Back Better, but Democrats kept slashing it to keep the cost down and it died when Manchin killed BBB.

Thanks to Nicholas Smith, a Philadelphian who has worked as a long-term care worker for more than 25 years, for sharing his story at today's Aging Committee hearing. We need to make sure that essential caregivers like him have the support they need to make caregiving a career.

The President understands that for #Aging and #Disabled people… #CareCantWait

They covered it all in this piece on #Medicaid

✅ The 20 million that lost coverage from unwinding
✅ The complexity of the Medicaid state/ federal partnership
✅ Wait Lists for Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS)
✅ Direct Care Workforce shortage
✅ Work Requirements

Golly. Squeezing sick people to make them pay big bucks for their health care is super lucrative . . . and shameful.

#UnitedHealthScam

It was an EPIC week for Care advocacy and our Little Lobbyists families were thrilled to be a part of it. 💕💕💕

We're excited to keep the momentum going to bring about the policy changes and investment our country needs in the #CareEconomy because #CareCantWait !

Our care workers need and deserve good jobs, including better pay, benefits, and access to paid leave. Today's Long-Term Care Workforce Support Act, introduced by Senator Bob Casey, will help support and expand our care workforce.

Show your support: go.caringacross.org/a/tell-congres…

Last week was one for the books for #CareCantWait

⬇️ a behind the scenes look at all of the events in DC to highlight #TheCareEconomy

The Child Tax Credit (CTC) provides essential support for more than 14 million children with disabilities. The House passed the Child Tax Credit in Jan, & it’s currently stalled in the Senate. Tell your Senator to support the CTC now! aapd.quorum.us/campaign/59554/ #ChildTaxCreditForUS

Families raising children with disabilities and families with disabled parents are more likely to live in poverty. The Child Tax Credit is an important tool to reduce child poverty. It’s already passed in the House & we need the Senate to pass the CTC ASAP! #ChildTaxCreditForUS

When this many people are facing the same types of struggles at the same time, we don’t have an epidemic of personal failure. We have national structural issues that we can solve together. *Solutions include an expanded CTC, childcare, fair pay, HCBS, PFML. #ChildTaxCreditForUS

I couldn't let the day end w/out celebrating the release of this National Academies report on supporting family caregivers in #STEMM ! Caregiving shouldn't limit careers or innovation. Thank you Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD, MPH for your leadership along with my fellow committee members & National Academies team!

Today’s The White House Care Convening filled my heart & cleared my eyes for the work ahead to build a better care future. I know it’s possible w/ fierce allies like Rita Choula Ai-jen Poo Josephine Kalipeni Nicole Jorwic Dawn Huckelbridge Anna Perng 彭安娜 💪🏽🙌🏽😍 #CareCantWait #caregivernation

What is care? Care is investing in things that are worth it. Investing in people that are worth it. Investing in time. #CareCantWait #TheCareEconomy

Carson Covey from ⁦⁦The Arc of the United States⁩ using AT to share his story about the need for investment s in the home and community based services system at ⁦The White House⁩ care roundtable #CareCantWait

Carson depends on his family for caregiving but would love for this to be the exception, not the rule. Such an important message for policymakers & voters to hear! Investments in home based care for people with disabilities-including older adults-are long overdue! #TheCareEconomy

To critically improve how care is provided in this country, the experiences of caregivers must be better understood. Thanks to President Biden, caregivers are finally being heard.

Today, the The White House hosted a convening for Care Workers Recognition Month & our Month of Action on Care.

.Rep. Katie Porter “When institutions like Congress perpetuate long standing social disparities for women, is there a term for that”

Me: “I believe it’s call patriarchy.”

Thank you Rep Porter for underscoring the structural sexism& racism of our underinvestment in care.