President Joe Biden announced an executive order in the Rose Garden on April 18 designed to increase access to and lower the costs of long-term care and child care, and support care workers and family caregivers the White House said in a statement.
Calling it the most “comprehensive set of executive actions any president has ever taken to improve care,” the White House reported in a fact sheet that the order includes more than 50 directives across almost every Cabinet-level agency.
The cost of child care is “up 26 percent in the last decade and more than 200 percent over the past 30 years” and costs for the elderly or people with disabilities have increased 40 percent over the last decade, the fact sheet said….