Senator Kirsten Gillibrand got attention, and backlash, from a tweet that read, “Paid leave is infrastructure. Child care is infrastructure. Why Biden is pushing a 'radical shift' to redefine infrastructure,” at the USA Today:“Caregiving is one of the most notable examples of how the White House expanded the traditional definition of infrastructure in its jobs proposal to include ‘human infrastructure’ and ‘social infrastructure.’ . With respect to childcare, one aspect of the proposed spending is the construction of childcare centers:“President Biden is calling on Congress to provide $25 billion to help upgrade child care facilities and increase the supply of child care in areas that need it most. Or does “build a supply of infant and toddler care” even mean, literally, to construct buildings, or does it refer, more figuratively, to “creating” or making-more-affordable such care (especially since there is no practice of child care centers serving only infants and toddlers, but it is true that it for these groups that center-based care is most expensive)?

Source: Forbes April 18, 2021 15:33 UTC