The Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy, an advocacy group aiming to increase support for child and elder care, plans to spend $50 million to back Democrats in congressional races. The move comes as the cost of child care continues to rise and as waiting lists for federal child care subsidies continue to grow. The campaign plans to support Democrats in Senate races in North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, Maine and Ohio and House races in Iowa and Pennsylvania. The executive director of the campaign and political action committee, Sondra Goldschein, said child care and elderly care are important to the affordability conversation, especially as child care costs exceed what families pay for housing. Republicans have also begun to support child care as an issue crucial to growing the workforce, but their proposals have been less dramatic than those offered by Democrats.