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The
plan, which Biden will detail at a campaign event in New Castle,
Delaware, seeks to make childcare more affordable and accessible
for families and to make it easier for aging relatives and loved
ones with disabilities to receive home or community-based care.
Biden faces President Donald Trump, a Republican, in the Nov. 3
election. The former vice president leads in national opinion
polls.
His plan would cost $775 billion over a decade and be paid for
by rolling back tax breaks for real estate investors and
tightening enforcement of the existing U.S. tax code.
As a first step, the plan would send federal aid to state and
local governments to keep childcare programs and other public
services operating.
Ultimately, the plan would seek to create 3 million jobs in the
healthcare and education sectors, while bolstering the workforce
overall by 5 million by allowing people who were taking care of
children or relatives to rejoin the labor force.
As part of the proposal, Biden pledges to provide all 3-year-old
and 4-year-old children access to free preschool, which the
campaign says would save parents thousands of dollars a year in
childcare costs.
“This is fundamentally an economic plan,” said a campaign aide
who requested anonymity in order to discuss details of the
proposal. “This is a core pillar of Joe Biden’s jobs and
economic recovery agenda.”
Biden previously released proposals aimed at boosting U.S.
manufacturing and building clean-energy infrastructure projects
as the country continues to reel from a pandemic that has killed
more than 140,000 in the United States and resulted in a net
loss of almost 15 million jobs.
(Reporting by James Oliphant; Editing by Peter Cooney)
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