This Mother’s Day, Get Your Mom What She Really Wants: Some F*cking Child Care
America used to have universal child care. What happened?
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“Do you know who else liked universal day care,” tweeted Sen. Marsha Blackburn with a link to an article about the Soviet Union.
Blackburn was responding to the Biden administration’s push to remake the American child-care system. Blackburn’s re…