Using Industrial Policy To Promote Social Justice
When the Commerce Department last month released its long-awaited guidelines for applicants seeking some of the department's $53 billion that the CHIPS and Science Act authorizes, one of the required criteria was that companies seeking grants provide child care for their workers. Secretary Gina Raimondo told The New York Times in an interview, "You will not be successful unless you find a way to attract, train, put to work and retain women, and you won't do that without child care."