Some highlights of what is in the Build Back Better Bill:
- Extends the improved Child Tax Credit to help meet the needs of parents and children.
- $550 billion in climate action, clean energy jobs, and environmental justice.
- Historic investments in affordable housing.
- Truly universal Pre-K and dramatically improved access to affordable child care.
- Guarantees 4 weeks of paid family and medical leave for all workers.
- Strengthened labor rights for workers through meaningful penalties for abusive employers.
- Expanded access to home and community based care services for older Americans and people with disabilities and strengthening the caregiving workforce.
- Extends deportation protection and work permits to an estimated seven million undocumented immigrants for five years, with the chance of renewing for an additional five years.
- Takes positive steps towards lowering certain prescription drug prices for some Americans.
- Expands Medicare benefits to include coverage of hearing services, like hearing aids, starting in 2024.
- Extends enhanced ACA healthcare marketplace subsidies through the end of 2025.
- Closes Medicaid coverage gap in non-expansion states through the end of 2025.
- Expands eligibility and coverage under Medicaid and CHIP.
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