Vice President Kamala Harris poses for a photo after a roundtable with women-led small business owners Wednesday, May 5, 2021, in Providence, R.I. From left: Christine Paige, owner of Bliss Medical Hair Replacement Center, Vice President Kamala Harris;; Minnie Luong, founder and owner of Chi Kitchen Foods; Suzanne Ellis Wernevi, founder of lunaandstella.com; and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.ANDREW HARNIK/ASSOCIATED PRESS
PROVIDENCE — During a roundtable discussion in Providence on Wednesday, Vice President Harris asked female business owners to help make the case to critics in Washington, D.C., for why infrastructure spending should include investing in child care.
Harris said her definition of infrastructure is “things you just need to get to where you need to go.”
“We should not ask women to put their jobs before their children,” Harris said. “It’s a false choice.”
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US Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo joined Harris at the event in the District Hall Providence space at the Wexford Innovation Center. The vice president had traveled to Rhode Island to promote President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan and American Families Plan.
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