We must cover all families, and keep prices manageable for all families. For the typical family, who might be paying $25,00 a year for child care right now — this proposal would save them $15,000 — every year! And a single mother making $60,000 a year? She’d pay nothing at all.
Design the universal child care plan to lower family costs, including saving a typical family about $15,000 per year and charging a single mother earning $60,000 nothing.
Occurrences
Evidence
The Senate HELP Committee fact sheet says the bill would cap child-care costs at 7% of income for families under 150% of state median income, and families under 75% would pay nothing.
Vox reported that Warren rolled out a sweeping universal child-care plan: families below 200% of the poverty line would pay nothing, and others would be capped at 7% of income.
Assessments
Warren publicly rolled out a universal child care proposal in 2019 with the core affordability structure described in the claim: a 7% income cap for most families and free care for the lowest-income households. The claim is about designing the plan, not enacting it, and she did design and announce it while in office/campaign context.