Supporting Our Seniors, Children, and People with Disabilities

Bob Casey believes Pennsylvania must be a Commonwealth in life as well as in name. That’s why he is a champion for the most vulnerable among us, including children, seniors, and people with disabilities. His “Five Freedoms for America’s Children” agenda would ensure children have the freedom to be healthy, to be economically secure, to learn, to be free from hunger, and to be safe from harm.

Making sure every child has the opportunity to thrive has always been a top priority for Bob Casey. He has worked to reduce child poverty by expanding the Child Tax Credit and is pushing to reinstate it for Pennsylvania families. He knows that young children form more than 1 million new neural connections every second. That’s why he supports investments in early education by fighting to increase funding for Head Start and quality, affordable child care. He is also working to promote children’s health care by expanding CHIP and passing the Medicaid for Every Child Act, which would automatically enroll children in Medicaid at birth. Bob Casey is also a leader in the Senate on child hunger and nutrition issues. Knowing the importance of technical education, he also co-authored the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act which now provides millions of students in community colleges nationwide with the education and training necessary to develop the skills needed for high-skill and high-wage jobs.

As the Chair of the Senate Aging Committee, Bob Casey has fought to protect seniors from financial scams and expose underperforming nursing homes. He took on insurance and pharmaceutical companies to cap insulin costs at $35 a month for seniors and co-led the reauthorization of the hallmark Older Americans Act, which delivers essential services to Pennsylvania’s seniors. He is working to expand Social Security benefits and will fight back against cuts and attacks on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

Bob Casey has been a strong advocate and voice for Americans with disabilities, making sure they can get a high-quality education, strong health care benefits, and secure employment. He wrote and passed the ABLE Act, which has been called the most significant disability legislation since the ADA, to allow people with disabilities to save for their future. He recently passed the ABLE Age Adjustment Act to expand this law, making more than six million Americans, including more than one million disabled veterans, now eligible for ABLE accounts. He’s fighting to remove barriers to voting and end subminimum wages for people with disabilities and is working to ensure the development of more accessible housing units for those with disabilities.