Economic Relief

Cost of Living

Pandemic tools kept people housed and daycares open; today’s food-at-home inflation is back in the low single digits.

The other side protects gougers, not families

Corporate landlords, childcare slashers, and price-gouge apologists want to keep every emergency program temporary and every grocery receipt a jump scare.

Corporate landlords

Private-equity landlords lobby to end rental assistance while slapping double-digit increases on buildings they barely maintain.

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Childcare slashers

House Republicans keep writing budgets that zero out stabilization grants, guaranteeing mass closures and layoffs for educators who kept us running.

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Price-gouge defenders

Grocery conglomerates and their MAGA allies block transparency bills so shrinkflation and price spikes stay hidden behind marketing spin.

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Daddy's Plan

Keep roofs, childcare, and groceries affordable

Gavin doubled down on the interventions that actually work: rent relief to prevent evictions, grants to keep childcare centers open, and a laser focus on the price categories families watch every week.

Solution

Housing stability

Use federal incentives to speed up housing permits, expand the Housing Choice Voucher program, enforce limits on corporate rent gouging through the FTC, and direct HUD to prioritize funding for communities building affordable units the fastest.

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Solution

Childcare continuity

Raise federal reimbursement rates for childcare providers, push a national childcare tax credit to reduce costs for families, and create a federal wage floor for early educators tied to K–12 pay benchmarks.

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Solution

Price sanity

Stand up a federal price-transparency dashboard for food, gas, and utilities; empower the FTC and USDA to investigate price fixing; and use the Defense Production Act to stabilize critical supply chains when families face extreme cost spikes.

CalRx launched affordable insulin, proving public competition can slash prescription costs.

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Current status

$30 per vial

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Receipts for cost-of-living relief

Treasury dashboards, childcare grant reports, and CPI releases—all the proof points behind the affordability agenda.