Should Christians Cheer Biden’s Plan for Families?

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🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Last week, President Biden addressed Congress to stump for his latest proposal: The American Families Plan. If passed as is, the initiative would do the following: Provide universal preschool for all three and four-year-olds Offer two years of free community college to young adults Cover childcare costs for families in poverty. Set a $15 minimum wage for early childcare workers. Mandate 12 weeks of paid parental, family and personal illness leave. Make a summer food program serving children from low-income families permanent This week on Quick to Listen, we wanted to dive deeper into Biden’s proposal. What is it trying to address? Who is it trying to serve? What changes should Christians see as wins for their own families and for their neighbors? And where should they push back or critique?Rachel Anderson is a resident fellow with the Center for Public Justice, leading the Families Valued project, where her work focuses on work and family policy and faith-based civic engagement. Anderson joined global media manager Morgan Lee and executive editor Ted Olsen to discuss why paid family leave has not been embraced in America, why so many churches are involved in early childhood education, and why family policy critics often take contrary positions on parents working or not. What is Quick to Listen? Read more Rate Quick to Listen on Apple Podcasts Follow the podcast on Twitter Follow our hosts on Twitter: Morgan Lee and Ted Olsen Music by Sweeps Quick to Listen is produced by Morgan Lee and Matt Linder The transcript is edited by Yvonne Su and Bunmi Ishola Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:21.9	Last week, President Biden addressed Congress to stump for his latest proposal,
0:26.7	the American Families Plan.
0:29.1	If passed as is, the initiative would do some of the following.
0:34.2	Provide universal preschool for all three and four-year-olds.
0:38.9	Offer two years of free community college to young adults, covered child care costs for families and poverty, set a $15 minimum
0:45.6	wage for early child care workers, mandate 12 weeks of paid parental family and personal illness
0:52.0	leave, make a summer food program serving children from
0:55.7	low-income families permanent. Now, we wanted to dive deeper into Biden's proposal. What is it
1:01.1	trying to address? Who is it trying to serve? What changes should Christians see as wins for their
1:06.3	own families and for their neighbors? And where should they push back or critique?
1:13.5	You are listening to Quick to Listen, where we go beyond hashtags and hot takes to discuss a major
1:18.4	cultural event. I'm Morgan Lee, global media manager at Christianity Today. And I'm Ted
1:24.2	Olson. I'm executive editor at Christianity Today.
1:26.9	Thank you. And I'm Ted Olson. I'm executive editor at Christianity today.
1:48.3	All right, Ted, as you can tell from the brief summary that I read of this proposal, this is a very ambitious proposal and there's a lot of things happening here.
1:54.6	But when you first heard it and from the stuff that you've read right now, what type of reaction did you have to it?
2:03.8	Well, you know, whenever a big project like this is proposed, part of me just he just nods and says, well, that's nice,
2:11.1	especially with Congress as it is. You know, there's a lot of ambition here. But there's been a lot of major proposals like this. And I was like, well, we'll see what, what, you know, what the legislation
2:15.3	write up actually ends up being and what gets negotiated and what ends up. Because, you know, there's like some, any one of those things you know, what the legislation write-up actually ends up being and what gets negotiated
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