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Those child care programs, many of them are struggling to get back to work. >> there's a crisis at early education in boston. the non-profit staff has shrunk 30%. >> why can't you find employees. >> because they can make more money working anywhere other than in child care. >> 10% have left the industry during the pandemic, driven out by closures and furloughs early on, and now wage competition. nationwide, the average child care worker makes just over $12 an hour, far less than k-12 teachers. in this competitive hiring market, other industries are raising wages to attract workers. >> this dev...

Safety net package, there's been so much made about child care and how making child care more accessible and affordable for families will hopefully get more parents, specifically more women, measure mothers, back into the workforce. there's also talk about how the hourly wages for child care workers need to increase. they are notoriously low. i'm curious. where is that funding going to come from? is it ultimately going to be passed onto the parents? >> no, actually, that's one area that i feel that when this bill passes in child care that the investments can be made. the infrastructure is ther...

In just a bit, but the question is what is washington doing about all of this? president biden's ambitious social spending plan took a big hit this week after weeks and weeks of tough negotiations. senator joe manchin, finally -- finally let the white house know he'll not support the clean electricity portion of the bill. while dropping that from the plan might secure his vote, it could cause other democrats to break off. and to make things even worse democrats still can't agree on a top line number for all of these programs. the build back better plan as it is known would fund paid family lea...

That he will not support the clean electricity portion of the bill. while dropping the plan to secure his vote it could cause other democrats to break off and to make things even worse, democrats still can't even agree on a top line number for all of these programs. the build back better plan as it is known would fund paid family leave, universal pre-k, free community college, child care programs. these are exactly the kind of things all of the workers that are protesting and part of strike-tober are fighting for, all of this would help people either get back to work, or start new careers wher...

An ideal world for democrats and as i sit here today they are just not there. there's still significant disagreement primarily on. the senate side between joe manchin and everyone else, possibly kirsten scinma. joe manchin want to see targeted programs, means testing, aim these programs at people who need them the most. that's controversial within the democratic party because what it means to be in the working class or middle class can vary from place to place and so that's part of the challenge that democrats are trying to work through as they even come to a top line price on that larger huma...