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Mrs. McCLAIN DELANEY. Mr. Speaker, as families across Maryland's Sixth Congressional District prepare for a new school year, they are facing yet another hit to their wallets. Parents will be spending an average of $485 extra per child on back-to-school costs, nearly 12 percent more than last year.
of raising a family, buying backpacks, new sports shoes, equipment, and back-to-school supplies, even getting them off to college.
continue after high school, including how many families are struggling with affordability of college and career and technical training.
childcare and school supplies. That is why I have launched a costs down agenda to focus on new ways to address accessible daycare, fortify the child income tax credit, further food co-ops, prohibit algorithmic pricing of consumer goods and groceries, and end nonsensical tariffs which drive up costs.
either. Team Maryland is working at Federal, State, and local levels to mitigate costs and address these costs, and we need to do it in Congress, as well.
We need partnership to support working families.