What President Biden’s recovery plan for families means for California’s children

IN THE WAKE of the pandemic, which has cast the essential nature of child care into high relief, President Joe Biden has revealed the outlines of a strategy to rebuild the country’s early education and care infrastructure.

Key aspects of the estimated $1 trillion American Family Plan, which Biden plans to roll out in a speech to Congress on Wednesday, remain in flux. Still, the package is widely expected to include key early childhood initiatives, including a universal pre-kindergarten, or pre-K, program, increased child care subsidies and an extension of the increased child care tax credit. There is also $25 billion earmarked for building and upgrading child care facilities in the earlier $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan.