Field Programs Drive Grassroots Support for Further Policies to Lower Costs for Working Families, Including the Cost of Child Care

During Last Week’s Debate, President Biden Reiterated That Lowering the Cost of Child Care Is a Key Policy Priority 

Washington, DC – During last week’s debate, President Biden reiterated that lowering the cost of child care is a key policy priority for his administration. Today, the Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy (CFFE) announced that the organization is doubling its investment in issue advocacy campaigns across the country that are driving grassroots support for further policies to lower costs for working families, including the cost of child care. 

Child care prices have risen at twice the rate of inflation, putting a strain on family budgets. President Biden has addressed this crisis by expanding the Child Tax Credit and investing nearly $40 billion in emergency child care relief to make child care more affordable and accessible. He also supports the Child Care Stabilization Act, legislation currently pending in Congress that would expand federal investments in child care.

“President Biden has worked with members of Congress to lower costs for families by passing the Inflation Reduction Act,” said Sondra Goldschein, executive director of the Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy. “As President Biden reiterated at the debate last week, we need our leaders to keep fighting for working families by taking action to lower the cost of things like child care, elder care and prescription drugs. We’ve spent the past several months talking to people across the country about these critical issues. Now, we’re doubling our investment in these programs to ensure we build an overwhelming grassroots demand for action on the issues that matter most to working families.” 

CFFE is currently running issue advocacy campaigns in Georgia, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. In each of these states, the program includes door-to-door canvassing and community organizing at places where people congregate, like local restaurants and shops. The programs also include relational organizing, recruiting members of the community to speak to their friends and families and encouraging them to contact their lawmakers to ask them to keep fighting to lower costs. 

CFFE organizers are hearing everyday from people who are concerned about the high cost of child care. Recently, our team in Wisconsin talked to Dorothy, a veteran childcare worker who worries about the exceptionally high turnover rate in the care industry. She shared her passion for nurturing young minds at the local KinderCare and hopes that through legislative change, more families can afford their services in the future.

Separately, information about programs the Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy PAC plans to run can be found here. 

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The Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy is fighting for a future where all people can afford to care for themselves and their loved ones. We do this by building political power to pass policies that lower costs for families, like paid family and medical leave, quality, affordable child care and elder care.