{"id":3063,"date":"2026-07-09T09:10:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T09:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3063"},"modified":"2026-07-09T09:10:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T09:10:31","slug":"project-2029-floats-free-child-care-or-1000-to-stay-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3063","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Project 2029\u2019 floats free child care\u2014or $1,000 to stay home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The proposal is among the first ideas published as part of Project 2029, a collection of recommendations by think tanks, former Democratic staffers and other progressive figures. The effort is directed by\u00a0Chad Maisel, a former adviser to President Joseph Biden and Senator Cory Booker, who\u2019s now a senior fellow at left-leaning think tank Center for American Progress.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3061\">How global energy markets built the \u2018Amazon of oil\u2019 logistics to keep prices from spiraling<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under the plan, the federal government would offer families two choices for each young child under 5: a free public daycare slot, or a stipend of $1,000 per month, meant to offset the costs or lost income associated with parent- or relative-provided care.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>States would work to develop networks of approved daycare providers, which could include neighborhood centers, houses of worship, home-based providers and schools. While children from families at all income levels would be able to enroll in these free seats, only those earning less than $400,000 per year would be able to claim the stipend, the plan says.<\/p>\n<p>Project 2029 \u2014 a nod to\u00a0, the influential policy manual from the conservative Heritage Foundation \u2014 seeks to influence Democrats\u2019 platforms. The inclusion of a child-care plan reflects the widening appeal of free, universal options for parents seeking care for young children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no getting out of where we are on child care without serious federal investment in the expansion of child-care capacity,\u201d said Tara McGuinness, a co-author of the plan and founder of a research lab at the New America Foundation. \u201cHigh quality child care cannot and should not be done on the cheap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The national average price of child care rose to\u00a0$13,184 per child\u00a0in 2025, a 23% increase from four years earlier, according to the non-profit Child Care Aware of America.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3059\">Amazon\u2019s $25 billion \u2018surprise\u2019 bond sale dangled extra yield to lure in buyers\u2014and flashed a warning sign about the AI boom<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Project 2029 proposal bridges a gap between progressive and conservative ideas about how to make raising children more affordable: liberals tend to embrace government-sponsored daycare options, while conservative solutions have focused on child-care tax credits or other financial measures.<\/p>\n<p>The price tag forProject 2029\u2019s plan would be enormous. The report\u2019s co-authors project it would be roughly equivalent to the $200 billion in income, productivity and tax revenue they estimate is lost each year due to childcare challenges.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The inclusion of universal child care in Project 2029 signals that Democrats see it as a winning issue. Free, universal child care was also a centerpiece of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Early childcare proposals have been popular nationwide. Sixty-four percent of respondents in an Associated Press\/NORC study last year said they want the federal government to\u00a0provide free or low-cost daycare\u00a0for children too young to attend public school, including 76% of Democrats and 51% of Republicans.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last year, New Mexico became the first state in the nation to implement a child-care plan for all, funded with the investment earnings from a state sovereign wealth fund, though access isn\u2019t yet universal. The District of Columbia\u2019s universal pre-K programs enjoy widespread adoption, with\u00a0\u00a0and 94% of all 4-year-olds enrolled in 2024. Republican-controlled states including Louisiana and Tennessee have also made recent efforts to expand some early education programming.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3057\">Elon Musk\u2019s judge has \u2018significant misgivings\u2019 about $1.5 million Twitter settlement\u2014but approves it anyway<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inclusion of universal child care in Project 2029 signals that Democrats see it as a winning issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-child-care-costs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Project 2029\u2019 floats free child care\u2014or $1,000 to stay home - 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