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This resolution brings useful attention and a stronger factual basis for expanding care and supporting care workers, but it is only findings—not funding or mandates—so benefits remain aspirational and could be used to justify costly policy choices unless followed by concrete legislation.
Medicaid beneficiaries, people with disabilities, and seniors: the findings call out 600,000+ people on Medicaid HCBS waiting lists, strengthening the case for expanding home- and community-based services and improving access to long-term supports.
Low-paid childcare and home care workers (largely women and low-income workers) and job-seekers: the findings document low pay, workforce shortages, and projected job growth, creating a stronger justification for wage increases, better job standards, and investments in workforce training pipelines.
Parents, families, taxpayers, and employers: by quantifying caregiving-driven labor exits (about $122 billion) and rising care needs across childcare, eldercare, and disability services, the findings provide a fiscal and social rationale for policy action to expand care access and support working families.
Medicaid beneficiaries, low-income families, and care workers: the resolution is only findings with no funding or enforceable changes, so it does not itself reduce HCBS waiting lists, raise wages, or deliver immediate relief.
Taxpayers and budget-makers: framing care investment with large economic figures could be used to justify expensive federal programs that raise taxes or reallocate spending without clear offsets.
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States congressional findings on the importance, challenges, and economic impacts of child care and direct care work without creating new laws or funding.
Introduced April 20, 2026 by Debbie Dingell · Last progress April 20, 2026
Declares congressional findings about the importance, value, and challenges of care work and care infrastructure, including child care and home- and community-based direct care. Summarizes workforce shortages, low pay and insecurity, high turnover, growing demand for in-home services, and a set of statistics on earnings, poverty, food insecurity, Medicaid waiting lists, projected job growth, unpaid caregiving value, and economic losses tied to care gaps; it makes no legal changes, authorizations, or funding commitments.