Biden to Sign Sweeping Order on Child-, Long-Term Care

President Joe Biden will sign an executive order Tuesday announcing a series of actions designed to increase access to quality child care and long-term care, and to better support family caregivers.

The order, which includes more than 50 directives to nearly all Cabinet-level agencies, serves as recognition that the nation’s child-, home-, and long-term care system is often unaffordable, inaccessible and simply broken for many working Americans.

While the proposal doesn’t provide or call for more funding to improve the nation’s faulty care infrastructure, it’s the “most comprehensive set of executive actions that any president has ever taken to advance ...