Rep. Adriano Espaillat Announces Build Back Better Tour

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Today, Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) announced that he will be kicking off his Build Back Better tour starting Monday, November 29^th at 3:00 p.m. EST throughout New York’s 13^th congressional district to highlight the impact of the historic Build Back Better Act on working families in the district, with a series of virtual and in-person events with local elected officials.

Led by President Biden and passed by House Democrats, the Build Back Better Act will be transformative for nearly every New York family: delivering historic investments that meet their needs in the wake of the pandemic and will ensure that all can share in the benefits of a growing economy now, and for generations to come:

• Housing: The Build Back Better Act will enable the construction, rehabilitation, and improvement of more than 1 million affordable homes, boosting housing supply and reducing price pressures for renters and homeowners. It addresses the capital needs of the public housing stock in big cities and rural communities across America and ensure it is not only safe and habitable but healthier and more energy efficient as well. It makes a historic investment in rental assistance, expanding vouchers to hundreds of thousands of additional families.
• Immigration: The bill also improves and reforms our broken immigration system, investing $100 billion to reduce backlogs, expand legal representation, and make our asylum system and border processing more efficient and humane.
• Child care: the average annual cost for child care in New York is $12,361. The Build Back Better Act expands access for 1,079,596 young New Yorkers and ensure that no New York family pays more than seven percent of their income on child care.
• Early education: only 24% percent of 3- and 4-year-olds in New York have access to publicly funded pre-K, while the average cost of private pre-K in the state is $8,600. The Build Back Better Act expands access to free, high-quality pre-K to 329,176 young New Yorkers – setting these children up for lifelong success and saving their parents thousands of dollars.
• Health care: by closing the Medicaid gap, expanding Medicare to include hearing care and extending relief for insurance purchased through the ACA, the Build Back Better Act will help 163,000 New Yorkers gain coverage and 192,200 New York families save hundreds on health costs each year – while also making home health care for elderly parents or loved ones with disabilities more affordable and accessible.
• Lower taxes: before Democrats secured the expanded Biden Child Tax Credit in the American Rescue Plan, 16 percent of New York children lived in poverty. The Build Back Better Act extends this life-changing tax cut and continues our historic progress toward reducing child poverty.
• Climate impacts: New York has experienced 31 extreme weather events over the last decade, which has cost New York families more than $100 billion. By reducing carbon pollution, bolstering community resilience and strengthening the American clean energy economy, the Build Back Better Act will create good-paying union jobs, advance environmental justice and save New York families the steep costs of recovery.
• The Build Back Better Act also makes generational investments in higher education, workforce training, affordable housing, nutrition assistance and more.

The full fact sheet from Rep. Espaillat and President Biden is available here.

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