House Education and Labor Committee
09/09/2021 at 12:00PM
The Committee on Education and Labor will meet to consider its portion of the Build Back Better Act, which invests $761 billion to lower costs for families, secure good-paying jobs for American workers, and set a strong foundation of America’s children.
Their bill invests:
- roughly $450 billion in lowering the cost of child care and securing universal pre-K for three- and four-year-olds
- $111 billion to lower the cost of higher education
- $82 billion in America’s public school infrastructure, for safe, healthy, energy efficient, and environmentally resilient public school facilities
- nearly $80 billion in workforce development programs
- nearly $35 billion in child nutrition programs