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Biden Promotes His $2.3 Trillion Infrastructure Package and His Love of Train Travel Last Updated May 1, 2021, 6:01 p.m. ETMay 1, 2021, 6:01 p.m. ET The president is asking for an $80 billion increase in funding for rail projects. A group of Biden supporters launch a multimillion-dollar ad campaign trumpeting the White House coronavirus recovery package and infrastructure proposal. Here’s what you need to know: Video President Biden visited Philadelphia on Friday to mark Amtrak’s anniversary and used the occasion to promote his $2.3 trillion infrastructure proposal, which includes $80 billion for mass transit.CreditCredit.Stefani Reynolds for The New York Times For a majority of his political career, President Biden was a commuter, making the 90-minute Amtrak Metroliner trip between Washington and his home in Wilmington, Del., when the Senate was in session. There were even a few trips thrown in when he was vice president. ....
Biden Is Giving Child Care âPrime-Time Attention.â Can He Actually Transform It? A turbulent pandemic, more women in Congress and decades of advocacy have set the stage for a complete overhaul of the child care system, experts said. Cypress Hills Child Care Corporation in Queens. President Biden plans to vastly expand access to care for infants and toddlers.Credit.Kirsten Luce for The New York Times April 29, 2021 âWhat has been a secretly whispered stress campaign for so many parents for so long is finally seeing prime-time attention.â â Senator Patty Murray of Washington In Her Words is available as a newsletter. ....
After Mass Closures, Post-Pandemic Child Care Options Will Be Scarce Kiddies Corner owner Anne Osula holds a child before putting him down for a nap at the daycare in Boston s Mattapan neighborhood on February 12, 2021. Erin Clark / The Boston Globe via Getty Images By Driving to work before dawn last winter, Valerie Norris heard an NPR report about a terrible disease spreading in China a pandemic, people were starting to call it. It sounded sad but very far from Rocky River, Ohio, where she’d led the Rockport Early Childhood Center for 34 years. A few weeks later, she knew better. It was still dark on the chilly morning of March 13 when Norris pulled into the big parking lot at the Rockport United Methodist Church, where her school was based. She always arrived first to unlock the doors. ....
Share this: A teachers leads a card game with older children at The Children’s Place, a center in Concord, New Hampshire that reopened in the fall of 2020 and has since then continued to operate under pandemic conditions. Credit: MaryLou Beaver The Hechinger Report is a national nonprofit newsroom that reports on one topic: education. Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get stories like this delivered directly to your inbox. Driving to work before dawn last winter, Valerie Norris heard an NPR report about a terrible disease spreading in China a pandemic, people were starting to call it. It sounded sad but very far from Rocky River, Ohio, where she’d led the Rockport Early Childhood Center for 34 years. ....