Happening now: the House is getting ready to vote on the #BuildBackBetter Act to:
✅ Lower cost for families
✅ Secure good-paying jobs for Americans
✅ Set a strong foundation for our future
Here’s how we are doing it: ⬇️🧵
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1️⃣ Lower the cost of child care by ensuring that a vast majority of families pay no more than 7% of their income on child care.
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2️⃣ Provide universal, free, high-quality preschool for 3 & 4 year-olds.
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3️⃣ Lower the cost of prescription drugs by allowing the government to negotiate Medicare drug prices, increasing price transparency in private health plans, and capping the cost of insulin at $35 per month for all Americans with insurance.
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4️⃣ Lower the cost of higher education by increasing the value of Pell Grants and directing aid to HBCUs and other Minority-serving institutions to build research capacity and invest in their students.
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5️⃣ Help workers secure good-paying jobs by expanding quality job training programs and investing in the vital direct care workforce.
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6️⃣ Strengthen enforcement or labor law and civil rights violations, and set meaningful civil monetary penalties to deter companies from committing wage theft, endangering workers’ safety, or violating their right to organize.
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7️⃣ Investing in a Civilian Climate Corps to create climate-focused public service opportunities and prepare workers to address the climate crisis.
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8️⃣ Preventing child hunger by expanding free school lunch eligibility to cover nearly 9 million additional children.
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