Who's minding the kids? Warren pushes universal childcare by lisabelkin
Presidential elections are decided by many things: media exposure, financial backing, personal chemistry, timing and luck. Policy positions often are just a way of signaling where a candidate stands on the political spectrum. But 2020 is shaping up to be different, the most ideas-driven election in recent American history. On the Democratic side, a robust debate about inequality has given rise to ambitious proposals to redress the imbalance in Americans’ economic situation.
In the face of a genuine national emergency, World War II, the U.S. government did something it never did before or since: create a national network to care for the children of women who worked in defense plants. The Defense Housing and Community Facilities and Services Act of 1940 funded childcare centers in communities with defense industries, charging as little as the current equivalent of $10 a day, and the proportion of women in the workforce rose from 28 percent to 37 percent by 1945.
Economists note that access to high-quality daycare for children pays for itself in social benefits, and argue that there is an economic loss to the country when that care is not available.
In an essay on the website Medium, Warren said the roots of her plan were personal, dating back to her years raising young children and teaching law in Houston. One day the babysitter quit, and every option she tried over the next few months fell apart. Her breaking point, she wrote, was the day she “picked up Alex from daycare and found that he had been left in a dirty diaper for who knows how long.
The plan would cost an estimated $700 billion over the next 10 years. Warren says that money would come from an “Ultra-Millionaire Tax” on families with a net worth over $50 million, which she has also proposed and which she estimates would generate $2.75 trillion over that same decade.
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