Federal Care Policy Possibilities in the 117th Congress: Toward Expansive Kinship and Collectivized Carework

Autor/in	Bivens, Briana M.
Titel	Federal Care Policy Possibilities in the 117th Congress: Toward Expansive Kinship and Collectivized Carework
Quelle	In: Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 59 (2023) 2, S.145-162 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Bivens, Briana M.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1946
DOI	10.1080/00131946.2023.2169693
Schlagwörter	Federal Government; Public Policy; Tax Credits; Access to Education; Preschool Education; Child Care; Grants; Caring; COVID-19; Pandemics; Family (Sociological Unit); Social Change; Politics; Social Justice; Federal Aid; At Risk Persons + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bundesregierung; Öffentliche Ordnung; Steuerermäßigung; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Grant; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Care; Pflege; Sorge; Betreuung; Familie; Sozialer Wandel; Politik; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Risikogruppe
Abstract	In this article, I position federal policy as a shaper of familial life capable of capacitating new forms of relationality. I review three key child and family provisions in the "Build Back Better" social policy package proposed by the Biden administration: the expanded child tax credit, universal pre-K, and the expansion of federal childcare subsidies. I trace the sociopolitical context surrounding Biden's endorsement of these child and family care provisions, highlighting how socialist and abolitionist organizing and the COVID-19 pandemic functioned as twin possibility-making forces, thrusting social democratic federal policy onto the agenda of arguably the most moderate Democratic candidate in the 2020 presidential primary. I argue that these social policies have the ontological capacity to shape an image of care and belonging that challenges the nuclear family form and neoliberal discursive productions of care, advancing more just, collective, and relational notions of responsibility and carework. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01