Care Can’t Wait
Care is at the center of our families, communities, and economy.
Now is the time to invest in the care infrastructure.
#CARECANTWAIT
Our fragmented care infrastructure drove millions of women out of the workforce – during the pandemic, and well before it. And most of the care workers we trust to provide support for our loved ones and ourselves are women of color, who can’t afford to care for their own families.
To recover and rebuild, we must invest in our nation’s caregivers. Join us and our partners in urging Congress to pass paid family and medical leave, affordable, quality childcare, expand home and community based services for older adults and people with disabilities, and create millions of good care jobs. Because our families’ well-being can’t wait, which means care can’t wait either.
Our goals are:
The investment of $400 billion in Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services to create over one million quality, union protected direct care jobs, expanding access to home and community-based services to people with disabilities and aging adults, and support unpaid family caregivers so they can re-join the labor force.
Passage of the Child Care for Working Families Act to ensure that no family pays more than 7% of their income for child care, invest in building an increased supply of high quality care, and increase workforce compensation and support, including a pathway to pay parity for early educators.
Passage of Paid Family and Medical Leave Legislation that would ensure all working people have access to at least 12 weeks of paid leave to bond with a new child, address a personal or family related illness, or handle needs that arise from a military deployment.
Take Action:
Our insufficient care programs, the people -- disproportionately women of color -- working in them, and families across the nation were hanging by a thread when the pandemic began; and now that thread has unraveled altogether. It's on us to push for real investment in care that will endure long after the pandemic is over in order to lift our economy and our families, and to create and sustain good jobs.
Solutions are possible; let’s make them happen! Add your name to urge Congress to make immediate change.
