Presidential Document2023-24500
National Family Caregivers Month, 2023
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Published
November 3, 2023
Signed
October 31, 2023
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 212 (Friday, November 3, 2023)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-24500]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 212 / Friday, November 3, 2023 /
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Proclamation 10665 of October 31, 2023
National Family Caregivers Month, 2023
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
How we treat our children, parents, and loved ones and
how we value those who care for them are fundamental to
who we are as a Nation. Early care and education give
young children a strong start in life while long-term
care helps older Americans, veterans, and people with
disabilities live and work with dignity. During
National Family Caregivers Month, we honor the
Americans who lift up our communities and our Nation by
providing dignified, professional, and invaluable care
to the people we cherish the most.
The cost of care in this country is too high, and the
pay for care workers is too low. A majority of
Americans struggle to find affordable, high-quality
care for themselves and their loved ones. At the same
time, care workers remain among the lowest-paid workers
in the country, though their jobs are some of the most
demanding. More than half of long-term care employees
and nearly 20 percent of child care workers leave their
jobs every year. As a result, many Americans are forced
to leave their own jobs behind to care for their loved
ones.
No one should have to choose between the parents who
raised them, the loved ones who depend on them, or the
paycheck they rely on to care for their families. That
is why as soon as I got into office, I signed the
American Rescue Plan to help millions of families
afford child care. Through that law, we provided $145
million to help the National Family Caregiver Support
Program deliver counseling, training, and short-term
relief to family caregivers and other informal care
providers. We also helped States expand and strengthen
Medicaid home care programs, increased Child Care and
Development Block Grants that help low-income families
afford child care, and provided crucial support to
stabilize the child care sector more broadly.
Consequently, we were able to keep the doors of 220,000
child care providers open during the pandemic, ensuring
nearly 10 million children received care.
Last year, we also issued the first-ever national
Strategy to Support Family Caregivers, outlining
hundreds of actions that the Federal Government can
take to support family caregivers' health, well-being,
and financial security. We required companies seeking
significant Federal funding from our CHIPS and Science
Act to submit a plan on how they will help employees
access affordable child care. Further, my
Administration proposed a rule that would set a Federal
floor for staffing levels in nursing homes. This
spring, joined by people with disabilities, family
caregivers, long-term care workers, early educators,
veterans, and aging advocates, I signed a historic
Executive Order that calls for the most comprehensive
set of actions of any administration to date to
increase access to high-quality child care and long-
term care and support for caregivers. The order
improves access to home-based care for people with
disabilities and veterans, expands access to mental
health benefits to care workers and veteran family
caregivers, lowers child care costs for hard-working
families, builds the supply of high-quality care to
provide more options to individuals and families, helps
protect workers from exploitation, and much more.
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This week, we recognize the love and sacrifice of
millions of American caregivers. They are the backbone
of our country, caring for young children, aging
parents, disabled veterans, injured service members,
and others who need support and medical assistance. Let
us celebrate and honor our caregivers and renew our
efforts to protect their dignity, health, and security.
Because when we care for our caregivers, we honor our
American ideals and move closer to a future where no
one in this Nation is left behind.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States, do hereby proclaim November 2023
as National Family Caregivers Month. I encourage all
Americans to reach out to those who provide care for
our Nation's family members, friends, and neighbors in
need to honor and thank them.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
thirty-first day of October, in the year of our Lord
two thousand twenty-three, and of the Independence of
the United States of America the two hundred and forty-
eighth.
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