Throughout the 2020 campaign, Joe Biden made big promises to women and families.
He would bail out day-care centers. He would introduce mandatory paid family leave. He would make child care more accessible and affordable so that the millions of women forced out of their jobs in the pandemic could get back to work.
While the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, passed on March 11, included some revolutionary provisions for families, they are temporary, meant to keep families afloat until they can put the coronavirus behind them. Many parents have been eagerly anticipating President Biden’s infrastructure bill, a landmark piece of legislation expected to include sweeping benefits for caregivers and fundamentally reshape the U.S. child-care system.