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Cautiously optimistic …
The American Families Plan, proposed by President Joe Biden this week, includes free preschool for kids ages 3 and 4. (Johnathan Kelso/For WABE)
“You really couldn’t get away from the fact, over the course of the past year, how essential child care is to us as a country and is to families,” Sarah Rattling of the First Five Years Fund, a nonprofit focused on increasing child care access, told WABE’s Martha Dalton.
In addition to free preschool, Biden’s proposal would subsidize child care for younger children. For low-income families, it would be free.