It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. For the first segment of our show today,

we will re-air an excerpt from the National Call-In election special that I co-hosted last night in partnership

with Marketplace in our series, America Are We Ready?

It was America, Are We Ready to make family care more affordable, child care and elder care,

also the cost of care for any family member with a serious disability.

This is such a central cost of living

issue for so many Americans, I don't have to tell you. And it's more on the political radar than in any

other presidential election. One of our guests told us the background fact is that Democrats,

including the Biden-Harris administration, have tried repeatedly to get child care

and elder care held through Congress, but it's always blocked by Republicans, and recently

by Republicans plus Democrat Joe Manchin. Remember that? So here's the central portion of last

night's episode in which we directly compare the Trump and Harris campaigns on this issue.

Then we'll do the rest of the show live.

It's America. Are We Ready to Control Family Care Costs,

the last of three Wednesday night election specials

on the impact of this election on the economy. I'm Kimberly Adams, senior Washington correspondent

for the Public Radio Program Marketplace. And I'm Brian Lehrer from WNYC. Our guest this hour is

Heather Long, Washington Post Economic columnist with a specialty in the U.S. economy, and we're

inviting your personal stories about how your child or elder or disability care costs have gone

up and what you think government should do about it. And we're comparing Donald Trump and Kamala

Harris and their parties on this issue. So let's hear a very concrete proposal from Kamala

Harris earlier this month, appearing on the View on ABC, proposing something that elder care

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