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Through this plan, they get a median wage of $24 an hour, with opportunities for professional development and advancement with local community colleges.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Khanna's campaign platform states the underlying childcare-worker wage commitment as part of his free child care plan.
introduced the Child Care for America Act to offer incentives to providers to lower costs to $10 per day for families and increase the pay floor for child care workers to $24 an hour.
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Khanna's official House site records that he introduced legislation aimed at creating the $24 childcare-worker pay floor.
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Congress.gov identifies Khanna as the sponsor of H.R. 9901, the Child Care for America Act of 2024.
Latest Action: House - 10/01/2024 Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The bill's latest official action remained referral to committee, with the tracker showing it had not advanced to passage or law.
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the median wage for full-time workers employed by eligible child care providers is at least $24 per hour
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The introduced bill text contains the specific $24-per-hour wage provision for full-time childcare workers.
This bill was introduced on October 1, 2024, in a previous session of Congress, but it did not receive a vote.
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): A legislative tracker summarizing Congress.gov/GovTrack data states the 118th Congress bill did not receive a vote, supporting that the proposal was not enacted in that Congress.