Democrats need an audacious child-care plan

Go all in

A child at day care.
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It looks like Democrats might pull out the stops in 2020. As Paul Waldman recently observed, they're increasingly approaching politics the same way the GOP does: Instead of moderating their positions to appear more "electable" to the other side, they're rolling out big ambitious ideas to excite their base. There's a renewed push towards Medicare for all, and Democrats are flirting with a federal job guarantee to eliminate unemployment entirely.

If the Democrats' theme in 2020 will be "thinking big," allow me to add one other item to the list: child care.

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.