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Updated tool calculates the cost of child care in every state

Child care more expensive than rent? Child care more expensive than public college tuition? That’s the case in most states. 

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, child care is affordable if it costs no more than 7% of a family’s income. This isn’t inevitable—it is a policy choice. Federal and state policymakers can and should act to make child care more affordable, and ensure that child care workers can afford the same quality of care for their own children. Calculate child care costs in your state

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Cutting Medicaid to pay for low taxes on the rich is a terrible trade for American families

Low taxes for the rich and for corporations is the highest legislative priority of the Trump administration and congressional Republicans. To get there, they are willing to cut federal programs that are vital to the incomes and security of American families.

These cuts will not just cause harm to individual families. They will cascade, leading to hospital closures, higher medical debt, lower earnings, poorer health outcomes.

Nothing about this policy package—tax cuts mostly for the rich and benefit cuts for the vulnerable—is good for the vast majority of families in this country. Read more

 

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271,500 workers risked going on strike in 2024 despite inadequate protections

The number of workers involved in collective action should come as no surprise. The United States has been experiencing decades of high—and rising—income inequality, largely stemming from an unequal balance of power in the labor market.

Workers’ interest in unions has surged; the number of union election petitions filed at the NLRB has doubled since 2021; public support for unions has reached a 60-year high.

Yet current labor law doesn’t adequately protect workers’ right to strike. Read more

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There will be pain

Extending Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, no matter how financed, will hurt most working families.

The amount of taxes owed but not paid each year is currently larger than the overall fiscal gap, driven by the richest U.S. households and businesses cheating the law and underpaying taxes. Extending the expiring provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) would increase the fiscal gap by nearly 50%, from 2.1% to 3.3%. Read more

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