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Cory Booker: “Right now in most states it costs more for child care than…”

Featuring: Cory Booker, Democratic | U.S. Senate, New Jersey

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America at a Crossroads: Steve Adubato in Conversation with U.S. Senator Cory Booker

Published | Video Starts at 22:07

Just like we have a responsibility for public schools as a country, we want our kids to learn those early years. Need high quality, affordable child care. Right now in most states it costs more for child care than it does for tuition at the state college. And that burden is all falling on American families that they cannot bear the federal government and the state government. There has to be a program to make child care more affordable. (22:07–22:15)

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Asserts that in most states, child care costs more than state college tuition.

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