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WASHINGTON 鈥?The White House is preparing an urgent and populist message for selling President Joe Bidens $3.5 trillion build back better agenda, even as House committee leaders begin churning out pieces of the forthcoming measure.In a memo being sent Tuesday to Capitol Hill and obtained by The Associated Press, the administration warns there is no time to waste in passing the package of corporate tax hikes and domestic initiatives by the e stanley quencher nd of the month. We face a fundamental choice in America right now as we rebuild our economy: this time, will everyone stanley cup get in on the deal the memo says. The time is now. We have to meet the needs in front of us. Not tomorrow, not months from now, not next year. Right now. The urgent appeal comes at a crucial time, with House and Senate Democrats hoping to assemble the package by a self-imposed Sept. 15 deadline. It also comes as Biden seeks to refocus on his core campaign promises after a brutal summer, punctuated by spiking COVID-19 cases and the deadly evacuations and withdrawal from Afghanistan.Illustrating gourde stanley Democrats ambition as well as the challenges they face, House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal released part of his panels portion of the bill Tuesday.The Massachusetts Democrat proposed creating a new paid family and medical leave program for workers that is more generous than Bidens own plan and expanding Medicare to provide dental, vision and hearing benefits.But Neal also did not immediately unveil tax boosts on the rich Ndwi Judge declines to nix 79 NYC child-killing case
WASHINGTON 鈥?Staking a major investment in early-childhood education 鈥?and in defiance of federal austerity 鈥?a group of lawmakers is proposing to offer free preschool stanley water bottle to all 3- and 4-year-olds from low- and moderate-income families.The bill, being introduced Wednesday, is an ambitious follow-up to President Obamas pledge during his February State of the Union address to narrow early stanley termosky learning deficits, where some children enter kindergarten already reading and others unable to write their names.The Strong Start for Americas Children Act calls for spending $34 billion in the first five years alone. Among other things, the money would pa stanley cup y for voluntary preschool for kids from households with up to twice the poverty level $47,100 for a family of four , raise education requirements for preschool teachers and help boost their pay to parity with K-12 teachers.In Washington state, some 50,000 children could potentially qualify for taxpayer-paid preschool, based on poverty estimates and census data. Currently, 20 percent of the states 4-year-olds and 9 percent of the 3-year-olds receive free pre-K education, either through the federally funded Head Start program for low-income families or the state-funded Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program, open to families with incomes up to 110 percent of the poverty level.In 2012, the two programs cost an average of $6,800 per student.Joel Ryan, executive director of Washington State Association of Head Start ECEAP, said the l |