Lesh
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"The Build Back Better Budget Reconciliation Bill
has an extended child tax credit to cut child poverty by nearly half.
Universal Pre-K for three- and four-year-olds.
Free school meals for an extra nine million kids.
New money to repair run-down schools.
Two free years of community college.
Twelve weeks of paid family and medical leave for the first time in American history.
New powers for Medicare to negotiate drug prices, which will bring down the costs of your prescriptions, which is a good thing, given that we often spend twice as much as people in other countries.
Expanding Medicare to cover dental, vision, and hearing aids, helping millions of seniors.
Lowering the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 60, again, helping millions of seniors.
Expanding home care, and paying higher wages for home care workers, again, helping millions of seniors.
Closing the Medicaid gap for low-income Americans and getting healthcare to four million uninsured people.
New money for housing choice vouchers to tackle homelessness.
New Justice Department grants for non-profits that work on reducing community violence.
And, of course, action on climate change, including a clean electricity performance program that will create nearly eight million new jobs and financial incentives to buy electric vehicles, to build charging stations for them, and for homeowners to weather-fit their homes, plus new forestry programs, flood control programs.
So stop focusing on the 3.5 trillion, and focus on the popular, necessary, and good stuff that is being invested in over — yeah! — ten years."
has an extended child tax credit to cut child poverty by nearly half.
Universal Pre-K for three- and four-year-olds.
Free school meals for an extra nine million kids.
New money to repair run-down schools.
Two free years of community college.
Twelve weeks of paid family and medical leave for the first time in American history.
New powers for Medicare to negotiate drug prices, which will bring down the costs of your prescriptions, which is a good thing, given that we often spend twice as much as people in other countries.
Expanding Medicare to cover dental, vision, and hearing aids, helping millions of seniors.
Lowering the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 60, again, helping millions of seniors.
Expanding home care, and paying higher wages for home care workers, again, helping millions of seniors.
Closing the Medicaid gap for low-income Americans and getting healthcare to four million uninsured people.
New money for housing choice vouchers to tackle homelessness.
New Justice Department grants for non-profits that work on reducing community violence.
And, of course, action on climate change, including a clean electricity performance program that will create nearly eight million new jobs and financial incentives to buy electric vehicles, to build charging stations for them, and for homeowners to weather-fit their homes, plus new forestry programs, flood control programs.
So stop focusing on the 3.5 trillion, and focus on the popular, necessary, and good stuff that is being invested in over — yeah! — ten years."