Caps child care costs for families and boosts pay for child care workers.
This bill would create new federal programs to make child care and preschool more affordable for families with young children. It would set aside billions of dollars to help cover costs, ensure higher wages for child care staff, and improve the quality of programs across the country. This means many families would pay less for care, and child care workers would earn more.
Today, child care costs are often high, and access to quality programs varies greatly, with no universal entitlement. If this bill passes, families would see their child care costs capped, with many paying nothing, and all eligible children from birth through age 4 would be entitled to high-quality child care and free preschool. Child care and preschool staff would also see their wages increase to at least a living wage, comparable to elementary educators.
S 2295 · 119th Congress · July 15, 2025 · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 5/10
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