05/08/2024

President Biden Biden Sends a Lifeline to the ‘Sandwich Generation’

The lifeline comes in the form of childcare and eldercare proposals

As President Joe Biden runs for re-election, he's resurrecting proposals to reshape American life from the cradle to the grave by lowering the cost of childcare, expanding preschool opportunities and making home aides more available to the elderly.

The initiatives were once part of Build Back Better, Biden’s gargantuan legislative agenda that stalled on Capitol Hill two years ago. Now they are what Neera Tanden, the Democratic president’s top domestic policy adviser, describes as "unfinished business."

Although the White House has tried to advance these ideas in a piecemeal fashion through regulations and executive orders, Biden hopes to have another opportunity to push more ambitious legislation through Congress in a second term.

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