The Cynical Politics of CHIP Subsidies

Sally Kohn: It's almost thrown in as like, well, the childcare people are part of our political coalition. And so we have to give them something, even though this might end up being a really weak thing,. She says courts will decide later what this means; commerce secretary and others can rank submissions for folks. But she adds that it could incentivize firms to discriminate against parents by charging 50 percent more than someone else.