Biden's Executive Order Prioritizes Affordable Child Care and Care Worker Support

President Biden plans to sign an executive order directing federal agencies to find ways to make child care cheaper and more accessible. The order includes more than 50 directives to nearly every agency to take action on fixing the child care and long-term care system. However, it falls short of the child care goals he set at the beginning of his presidency. The order does not deliver on the goal of $225 billion to fully cover child care for low-income Americans and an additional $200 billion for universal preschool. The president is seeking to make progress on some big promises that have so far gone unfulfilled.