Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) is right in saying there is a family crisis in America, but the legislation she proposed is the wrong one to fix it.
The United States has record-low and falling birth rates because young adults are getting married later and less. This deserves attention from Congress, but the wrong solution could make matters worse while adding to our budget deficit.
Britt, with Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) and two House members, is co-sponsoring two misguided bills. The Child Care Availability and Affordability Act and the Child Care Workforce Act are day care subsidies. They subsidize only one model of caring for children (two earners combined with institutional day care), and they are large subsidies to the child care industry rather than to parents.
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