I think we should have started with the care economy. I think we should have started with our agenda around affordable childcare, which would have been at 7% of someone's income. Extension of the child tax credit, which reduced child poverty by half in America. Paid leave during the pandemic you were talking about. We talked about during the pandemic. But the effect of it as a priority would have been, if we had sequenced it differently, that it would have been beyond the pandemic. (19:50–19:55)
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