{"id":265200,"date":"2025-05-31T10:58:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T10:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/alabama\/sen-britt-emphasizes-child-care-issues-in-hearing-with-labor-secretary\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T10:58:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T10:58:31","slug":"sen-britt-emphasizes-child-care-issues-in-hearing-with-labor-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=265200","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Britt emphasizes child care issues in hearing with labor secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>U.S. Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., recently attended a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9C3R_gvBBu0\">Senate Appropriations Committee hearing<\/a> where Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer presented the Department of Labor\u2019s budget request for the 2026 fiscal year. During that hearing, Sen. Britt advocated for child care reform at a national level as a way to achieve one of the secretary\u2019s stated goals: increasing workforce participation in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to hone in on one thing that really hasn\u2019t been discussed today that you just brought up, and that is child care. Whether I am at the top of the state or the bottom of the state, or whether I\u2019m out at my largest manufacturer or a small business on Main Street, they say workforce is an issue and they continually either lose people because of reliability or affordability of child care and\/or it is more challenging to recruit,\u201d Britt said during the hearing. \u201cWhen we started digging in on this, we saw that about 59 percent of stay-at-home and\/or non-working or part-time parents say they want to reengage in the workforce, but that affordability or accessibility of child care is an impediment to that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow look, if you want and have the opportunity to stay home, I absolutely want that for you. But if you want to reengage in the workforce and help with President Trump\u2019s vision of building back America, then I want to make sure that we remove those impediments,\u201d Britt added.<\/p>\n<p>Britt asked Secretary Chavez-DeRemer if she was also hearing concerns related to child care from workers and employers across the country, to which the secretary replied, \u201cabsolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Britt then took the opportunity to highlight the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/senate-bill\/847\/all-actions\">Child Care Availability and Affordability Act<\/a>, a bill which she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alreporter.com\/2025\/03\/31\/sen-britt-joins-sen-tim-kaine-to-propose-bipartisan-child-care-plan\/\">introduced earlier this year<\/a> alongside U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia. The legislation specifically looks to expand several tax credits related to child care as a means of increasing accessibility and affordability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBetween the ages of zero and five, a parent spends about 22 percent of their income on child care. When you look at our economy across the board, it\u2019s $122 billion a year we lose to this reliability issue,\u201d Britt stated.\u00a0\u201cI have a specific piece of legislation, a bipartisan piece of legislation, the Child Care Availability and Affordability Act, that really puts parents back in the driver\u2019s seat, and also encourages businesses, both large and small, to be a part of the solution. I think it\u2019s critically important that we empower parents, we empower hardworking Americans, and we help create a path for their American Dream and for prosperity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chavez-DeRemer agreed with Britt that more could be done to improve child care access and offered to provide the senator with \u201cwhatever technical assistance\u201d may be needed as Britt continues to work on getting the Child Care Availability and Affordability Act passed. Britt also indicated her own willingness to collaborate with the Department of Labor on child care issues.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div class=\"zox-post-ad-wrap\"><span class=\"zox-ad-label\">Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019d love to continue to work with you as we continue to build momentum, we\u2019ve been building it in a bipartisan way,\u201d Britt stated. \u201cI think this is something Americans deserve better from us, and we\u2019re trying to produce that. Last year I actually asked the Federal Reserve chair about these commonsense reforms that I\u2019m talking to you about and said, \u2018if we were to do this would this actually help with our labor participation rate?\u2019 and he said \u2018absolutely,\u2019 so I\u2019m glad that you agree with that as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the Child Care Availability and Affordability Act is awaiting consideration by the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Sen. 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