cute but expensiexpensive. super expensive. look, in 34 states and d.c. it costs more to send your kid to daycare for child care than it does to send them for in-state public college tuition. the cost of college is more affordable than child care. one of the problems here is inflation in this sector. 220% prices have risen since 1990. it is for many families the largest expense they have and participate of the problem is the workforce behind the workforce. it s a low pay workforce and we ve lost a lot of these jobs. the report says child care system in america was broken before covid and covid made it worse. we are down 50% child care jobs since the pandemic. and look at the pay to work in this sector you have to have licensing in some cases, the requirements. the pay is about $13 an hour. you can make more in a restaurant on the floor of a big box store and basically it s half of what is typical pay of all other categories, so it s just a real problem in this
are holding hostage the entire world economy unless they get what they want has been an outrageous display of extremist politics, and it really is unacceptable. and the second point that we have to appreciate is right now in america, you got a middle class which is shrinking. you ve got 60% of our people living paycheck to paycheck. child care system in disarray. health care system collapsing. housing all over the country. people can t afford housing. you don t cut programs that working people desperately need. what you do do, and what has to be done is the man that the wealthiest people in this country who are doing phenomenally well start paying their fair share of taxes. i don t have to demand that corporate interests, receiving record-breaking profits start paying their fair share of taxes. you have to cut military spending when we re spending more than the next ten nations combined mass cause overreturns in the military. there are ways you can cut
during the iraq war, who later became the first senator to give birth while in office. thank you so much for being here. happy mother s day to you. thank you! same to you. you have two young daughters. i do. over the last three decades, the cost of child care has risen 220%. it s such a staggering number, it s actually hard to comprehend. the pandemic made problems in the child care system worse, particularly for women of color. what are the solutions? well, you know, there s a solution, a proposal from the biden administration that i support that is child care for working families. it would cap the cost of child care at $10 per day. it would essentially be a way to provide child care to subsidize child care for working families all across this country. families spent as much as of a quarter to half of their income on child care. and there s no way for working families to survive under those burdens. anything bipartisan? because you can t do anything
we are gonna guarantee you health care, we re taking on the drug companies. you re gonna be able to send your kids to college tuition free. you know what? we re not gonna have a child care system in disarray, and if you re pregnant he won t have a baby, can have it for months nine months paid leave. can i have those months retroactively? just like in scandinavia. this is what we have to bring our people together, black, white and latino to stand up to justice and have the courage to take on big money interests. senator sanders, you are an inspiration to people who very much care about these issues and understand their importance. you are all business, all the time, which is one of the most lovely, charming impenetrable things about you. i don t know if you know that your seriousness has been captured on tiktok. i think it s from today. do we have the video? can we just show it to the viewing public? you re walking through the street and there you are in the background, totally an
take on the ruling class of this country, which today has enormous economic power, political power, and media power. you ve got to do that. and the democratic party has got to say, you know what workers? we are standing with you. we are gonna guarantee you health care, we re taking on the drug companies. you re gonna be able to send your kids to college tuition free. you know what? we re not gonna have a child care system in disarray, and if you re pregnant, you want to have a baby, can have it for months nine months paid leave. can i have those months retroactively? just like in scandinavia. this is what we have to bring our people together, black, white and latino to stand up to justice and have the courage to take on big money interests. senator sanders, you are an inspiration to people who very much care about these issues and understand their importance. you are all business, all the time, which is one of the most lovely, charming, impenetrable things about you. i don t know