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Earlier this month, Sen. Elizabeth Warren debuted a popular digital calculator to show voters exactly how much they’d benefit from her proposal to get rid of student-loan debt, should she be elected president. The calculator, the Massachusetts Democrat told a crowd of students at Iowa State University, is a “way to make real to people what it means to talk about student loan debt cancellation.” So far, 250,000 people have tried it out.
Evidently, Warren is really fond of online calculators: On Thursday her campaign unveiled another interactive tool so you can, yet again, literally add up the benefits of a Warren presidency. This time, her calculator tells individuals how much they’d save under her universal-child-care plan. It asks questions about current child care costs and household income, and spits out an individualized figure based on your answers.
She announced her Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act plan to provide the nation with affordable child care in a Medium post back in February. “In the wealthiest country on the planet, access to affordable and high-quality child care and early education should be a right, not a privilege reserved for the rich,” she wrote. “We must do better for our kids — and our parents.”
The Act includes a network of daycare centers free to families that earn less than two times the federal poverty level, and will be funded by her proposed wealth tax on those with more than $50 million in assets. “The guarantee is about what each of our children is entitled to,” she said at a campaign rally in February. “Not just the children of the wealthy, not just the children of the well-connected.”