The pandemic has really shown that broadband is just like electricity and just like water,

you really need it these days to survive.

In most regions of the country, child care is the most expensive part of a family's budget.

There was no way we I was going to be able to ever afford day care.

So why is the country's broadband infrastructure still not reliably connecting rural communities?

So one of the things we must do and I know that Joe will do as president, we need to expand broadband

so that every student in this country has access to the internet.

From today's bill to tomorrow's jobs.

We're looking for the government at work and our tap water, light switches, bridges and broadband.

You're listening to Pantto Politics Summer Series.

Infrastructure in real life.

Hello everyone and welcome back to our infrastructure in real life series here at Pantto Politics over the past three episodes.

We've talked about huge pieces of American infrastructure systems that have been in place for decades, if not centuries, in one form or another.

We've learned about how vital those systems are, where they need attention and maintenance and what the future may hold for them.

What we've not discussed yet is the infrastructure of the 21st century.

The infrastructure emerging as necessary to the structures of our culture and economy, but around which we haven't built much.

So we're going to try to tackle two of those areas today, broadband and childcare.

And we know that specifically talking about childcare as infrastructure is controversial.

But as we have put together these episodes, I know I personally say I have become more convinced that that's an appropriate label for childcare.

Because I feel like we've spent a lot of time thinking about what is infrastructure and what is the point of it.

And my conclusion has become that infrastructure is our best way of showing care for each other.

It is our way of saying these particular elements are so foundational to the way that we live.

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