.liuba4congress on a conversation with ewarren: 'She told me, 'We moms...when we run out of milk we make breakfast with orange juice.' She gave me advice & she listened... [It] was about more than motherhood. It was about struggles working parents face...
and couldn’t get my daughter into daycare because of years-long waiting lists for child-care centers I couldn’t even afford. We moved back home to Long Island so my mom could help watch our children and I could keep working.
We did, however, change the way that parents run for office. We convinced the Federal Election Commission to approve the use of campaign funds for childcare, and in 2018, nine federal candidates used the FEC ruling to pay for their childcare with their campaign funds. This decision broke down barriers for parents who aren’t independently wealthy to be able to run for office.
There is one candidate in the 2020 presidential race who has made it her life’s work to change these rules, to change this game. I remember as then Professor Elizabeth Warren fought tooth and nail to establish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to transfer some power back to working Americans. Elizabeth understands that we need to make our markets work for American families, entrepreneurs, and young people because right now, the system isn’t built for their success.
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