We keep working on that, but it just leaves working families stuck in the middle without support and without options. So what we're doing is taking the steps that we should have done a long time ago. So We want to strengthen the spousal impoverishment protection so no one partner is left with nothing when the other needs care. We also have to value the caregiving workforce itself. Many who are behind me from Michigan, I might add some. (05:04–05:13)
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