Middle income families won't spend more than seven % of their income on child care for children under the age of five. The most hard pressed, working families won't have to spend a time. But universal nature of byden's plan is exactly what might make it hard to pass in opet republican senator richard burr wrote that a federal programme for child care and universal prequet is unnecessary.
President Biden wants to give Americans four more years of free school: two years of pre-K and two of community college. In a two-part series, Today, Explained’s Haleema Shah explores the challenges of expanding public education.
Today’s show was reported by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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