Friendly back to school reminder:
When kids show up late for school, they still showed up. Thank them, not scold them.
“I’m happy you’re here" goes a very long way.
You want to support children?
Attach a pediatrician's office to every school building in the country. Make regular checkups a part of the school year. Make it all free, knowing that in the long run a healthy country is a better county.
That's how you could support children.
Our child care system is broken. Families are struggling to afford child care for their kids, and child care workers are severely underpaid.
We need to invest in our child care system so we can lower costs for families and raise the wages of child care workers across America.
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Kids under 12 can’t be vaccinated yet. "Until they can be, the best way to protect them is simple," @olgakhazan reports: "Vaccinate all the eligible adults and teens around them. https://t.co/Qi9Uo2LM7U
Fifty-six years ago today - surrounded by Democrats and Republicans, activists and leaders including Dr. Martin Luther King, John Lewis, and Rosa Parks - President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
On my first day in office, I directed the Department of Education to pause federal student loan repayments for millions of Americans until September. The pause has been a critical lifeline — that’s why today, my administration is extending the pause until January 31, 2022.