6. Universal Child Care

Progressive Agenda: “Make Pre-K, after-school programs and childcare universal”

CPUSA: “Cuts in social welfare programs hit single mothers and their children especially hard….Among the forms of oppression women experience are attacks on their reproductive rights; lack of quality, affordable day care…..Our vision is one of Bill of Rights Socialism….where women have full rights and actual guaranteed equality; where all ethnic, national, and racial groups have full guaranteed equality and civil rights, implemented through a crash program of compensatory measures; and where fully funded quality education and programs for children are the highest priority.”

SPUSA: “We call for 16 months paid leave to be shared by new parents or in its entirety by a single parent, and the expansion and full-funding of high-quality child care facilities…..We support free, quality care and education for all children and young people, federally financed and community controlled……We support public child care starting from infancy, and public education starting at age three, with caregivers and teachers of young children receiving training, wages, and benefits comparable to that of teachers at every other level of the educational system.”