; Whereas the median annual earnings for full-time childcare workers and home care workers is less than $30,000, and, as a result, nearly 1 in 6 home care workers lives in poverty, and 1 in 3 childcare workers is experiencing food insecurity; Whereas COVID–19 both heightened the existing challenges for, and placed new stress on, care workers, leading to burnout and exhaustion; Whereas the demand for home and community-based care services is growing, because the population of adults who are 65 and older will nearly double by 2050, and 10,000 individuals are aging into retirement per day; Whereas 88 percent of aging adults prefer to receive long-term supports and services in home and community-based settings; Whereas, across the United States, approximately 656,000 aging individuals and individuals with disabilities are on waiting lists to access home and community-based services through Medicaid; Whereas home care jobs are the jobs of the future, because the home care workforce is projected to add more new jobs than any other single occupation in the United States and will add more than 1,000,000 new jobs from 2020 to 2030; Whereas care jobs are the jobs of the future, because these jobs cannot be automated or outsourced; Whereas turnover and shortages in the care workforce are costly to the economy, because they lead to higher costs for taxpayer-supported programs and industry employers that need to keep hiring and training new workers; Whereas large-scale labor force exits and work disruptions due to childcare needs annually cost the economy an estimated $122,000,000,000 in lost income, productivity, and tax revenue; Whereas investing in care infrastructure will lead to fewer staffing shortages and higher productivity, while ensuring a more robust and stable pipeline of workers from which businesses can recruit