This policy brief focuses on the OBBB’s impacts on women’s caregiving and families, specifically on the issues outlined in IWPR’s Promoting Access to Care and Tax Credits for Families policy briefs. Millions of women face exorbitant costs for care and find it difficult, if not impossible, to pay
for quality care for their children, elders, and loved ones with disabilities. What families need are meaningful public investments to tackle the care crisis, stabilize the care workforce, and expand access to quality care. Instead, the new law will only further compound the ongoing caregiving challenges that families face and exacerbate the additional financial burdens and uncertainty heightened by the recent federal government shutdown—the longest in US history.