The package includes $400 billion to bolster support for children and families, $555 billion for climate change programs and $166 billion in housing aid
A crew installing solar shingles in Warren, Vt., April 13, 2021.
That includes an estimated $100 billion in funding for child care expansion and subsidies over the first three years, and similar spending levels for the duration of the program. The proposal is designed to ensure that the vast majority of families — those with four-person households earning up to $300,000 — spend no more than 7% of their income on child care. Families that earn under 75% of the state’s median income would pay nothing.
Once enacted, the bill could lower the United States’ greenhouse gas pollution by about 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide by 2030, the Rhodium analysis found — roughly the equivalent of taking all the cars in the United States off the road for one year. In a provision aimed at vulnerable people without health coverage, it would offer comprehensive health coverage to poor adults who live in 12 states that have declined to expand their Medicaid programs, giving them subsidized access to private Obamacare plans. Several of these changes would expire after 2025, but millions more Americans would gain health coverage in the next few years.
The proposal would include most immigrants who have lived continuously in the United States since before Jan. 1, 2011, and could help between 7 million and 8 million people. But significantly, the proposal does not create a new pathway to citizenship after such plans were disqualified under Senate rules.
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