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Child Care

Raising the minimum wage would be another one. Some of these childcare workers make, i think average wages are like 12 dollars an hour. So raising mnima wage for 15 dollars an hour would actually be huge, universal kind of policy that would help as well. And is any of this sort of happening as part of the big fiscal negotiations that are going on right now? Is this old separate? No, this is part of it. Not part of the infa structure bill. It's the separate reconciliation thing getting tract but, you know, we need all the democrats to vote for it, et cetera.

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