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Within the Democratic Party there is a fundamental disagreement over the understanding of 'universal' in 'universal child care', roughly divided into one camp advocating completely free care with the government paying the full cost, and another camp advocating an 'affordable' model in which parents, employers, and the government share the cost three ways.
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10/14/2026
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