President Biden will soon release the details of his $400 billion, ten-year human infrastructure program. It sounds like a huge sum.
But there are so many categories of human caregiving that even $40 billion a year doesn’t stretch all that far. Long-term care alone, residential and at-home, costs about seven times that much, and is grossly inadequate.
With the need for high-quality pre-K and child care, as well as home care and residential nursing care, and the disgracefully low pay in the entire (heavily Black and immigrant, heavily female) sector, we could spend the entire sum on any one of these areas.
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