U.S. Senator Says Mexico Spends More On Their Children Than U.S.
by Lisandra Gomez-Tate in Daily Edition | August 16, 2023
Elizabeth Warren, photo: United States Senate, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is calling on Congress to urgently pass new funding for national child care and early education. According to Warren, who has held her seat in Congress since 2013, “if Congressional Republicans get their way” federal child care funding will “fall off a cliff.”
If federal child care funding does falls off the proverbial cliff, Warren states that 3.2 million children will lose their child care spots, and child care centers across the country will close.
Warren says: “That’s going to have a terrible economic consequence. That’s a lot of mommies and daddies who can’t go to work, who can’t work a full shift because they can’t get adequate child care.”
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In an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN, Warren claims that among the world’s 37 richest nations, the U.S. is number 33 when it comes to investing in national child care. Warren says: “Mexico spends more per child — they spend more on their children than the U.S.”
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It could be that it depends on how you measure and the ages you measure.
This is for preschool-aged children.....
As a percent of GDP, Mexico appears to be ahead of us.
If we look at spending per child, we're ahead of Mexico, but still way down compared to other countries.
