Bernie Sanders’s platform is going to make you want to have a baby.

Well, maybe not. But if you’ve been thinking about starting a family — or adding to one — Sanders’s childcare plan will make it a lot easier. It’s the best proposed by any presidential candidate since Shirley Chisholm, a preschool teacher and Congresswoman who ran in 1972.

The lack of decent and affordable childcare in the United States remains a scandal and hasn’t improved since Chisholm’s day. Adults who have kids spend on average between 9 and 22 percent of their income on childcare, and for poor people the burden is much higher (35 percent). It’s no surprise, then, that having children is a leading cause of poverty in the United States. Black and Hispanic mothers struggle especially with access to good childcare and are especially likely to make career sacrifices as a result, but more than half of mothers report working fewer hours to save on childcare, and a quarter have left the workforce entirely in order to care for their children.