Child care — good child care — is grossly expensive.
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Add to that the lack of child care options across our nation, child care deserts leave families without any child care options.
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Child Care Aware of America, an organization advocating for quality child care standards, recommends that states employ one inspector for every 50 child care providers.
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Child care: HHS will issue a final rule to require states to annually monitor all child care providers receiving federal child care and development funds (CCDF).
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We couldn't afford child care; child care hours didn't work according to her schedule.
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According to Child Care Aware's Parents and the High Cost of Child Care report only one in six children who qualify for child care subsidies actually receive them.
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The child care development block grant authorizes the child care development fund, which provides block grant funding to states to provide child care assistance to low-income families.
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Earlier this year, Klobuchar introduced the Child Care Workforce and Facilities Act, which would provide grants to states to expand child care facilities or train child care workers.
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Finally, wholly absent from Trump's child care plan is support for the child care workforce.
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Warren and Haaland's bill would create a new network of child care options, while the Child Care for Working Families Act would expand the existing federal child care subsidy system.
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Right now, no comprehensive federal child care program exists to truly give all families child care.
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She also wants to make sure that child care workers are adequately paid, and would support women continuing their education with child care scholarships, and would expand campus child care programs.
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The Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act is essentially Warren's child care plan in legislative form.
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It's not totally clear why child care workers make so little while child care is so expensive.
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The crux of this return on investment is providing quality child care, not just cheap child care.
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On Thursday, Democrats rolled out the "Child Care for Working Families Act," which would focus on reducing child-care costs for low- and moderate-income families while boosting pay for child-care providers.
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"A large single indicator for high-quality child care is wages for early child care educators," Schochet says.
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These options would include locally-licensed child care centers, preschool centers, and in-home child care options. 3.
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And then there are others who can afford child care but can't find a licensed child care facility.
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She qualified for subsidized child care through EES, a Child Care and Development Block Grant-funded care center.
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Every mom gets to deduct "the average cost of child care" whether she has child care costs or not.
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Child care Alongside his eldest daughter Ivanka, Trump introduced a child care plan, which separates him from most Republicans.
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Child care workers -- One key element of Warren's plan is to pay these child care workers similarly to teachers.
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The bill would also create new regulations for federal child care centers and increase pay for child care workers.
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The changes to the Child Care Development Block Grant also have the unintended consequence of reducing subsidized child care supply, especially among family and informal child care providers who might struggle to meet the new requirements.
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That's why we've introduced the Child Care Workforce and Facilities Act -- legislation that will work to bring the cost of child care down and provide more child care centers in areas that need them the most.
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The on-base child care had a six-month waiting list; the cost of private child care was too high.
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In countries with scarce public child care services and parental leave, grandparents often provided child care daily, the study found.
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Despite the high cost to families paying child care bills, child care centers are often barely paying their own bills.
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If you use child care, check with your employer to see if they offer a child care flexible spending account.
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Difficulties finding child care fall especially hard on moms, who still shoulder the bulk of child care responsibilities in families.
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The American Family Act isn't a child care plan, per se, but it would certainly help families afford child care.
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The military's universal child-care program covers more than 200,30 children of military families and is free or affordable for all the families, offering access to accredited child care options with well-paid and qualified child-care workers.
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Bobby Scott from Virginia introduced the Child Care For Working Families Act aiming to make high quality child care more affordable.
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But here's what her proposal does not do: Unlike the 1971 child-care bill, it would not actually provide child care.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren is planning to unveil a universal child care plan that would guarantee American families access to child care.
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Elizabeth Warren plans to unveil today a universal child care plan that would guarantee all American families access to child care.
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Among those children, 5.7 million attend formal child care programs, such as centers, school-based programs, or licensed family child care.
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Patty Murray's Child Care for Working Families Act would ensure every family has access to affordable and high quality child care.
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Child care is obscenely expensive, making working cost-prohibitive for many women; there should be more affordable early child care available.
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Only 2 percent help employees pay for child care through vouchers or other subsidies and only five percent offer backup child care.
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Overall, the researchers found, states regulate tobacco, alcohol and marijuana more strictly in child care centers than in home-based child care.
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The omnibus added $2.4 billion for child care assistance to the child care development block grant through the end of fiscal 2018.
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Neither plan has addressed promoting high-quality child care; rather, each plan has addressed only how they would promote cheaper child care.
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Child care has always been a nonpartisan issue, and has seen its fair share of changes — from World War II when universal child care was available to the reauthorization of the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014.
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The federal Child Care Development Block Grant aims to help these families afford child care by giving states money to operate subsidy programs.
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Congress originally designed the child care subsidy program to help low income parents remain in the workforce by making child care more affordable.
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Trump's child care plan will predominantly help wealthy moms like Ivanka Trump, in their high tax brackets and with high child care costs.
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Funding for child care, including the Child Care and Development Block Grant, has increased steadily, including in the budget agreement earlier this year.
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Making child care fully tax-deductible might cause high earners to spend more on their child care than they would without the deduction.
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"That's the kind of money where we could pay for child care, high quality child care, for all of our kids," Warren said.
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He would create a new income tax deduction for child care expenses, capped at the average cost of child care in each state.
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The dependent child care tax credit has complicated rules that limit who can take advantage, including what qualifies as a child care expense.
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It wasn't so long ago that the notion of not just universal child care but publicly run universal child care was downright mainstream.
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Yet only 8 percent of child-care centers and 34 percent of listed home-based child-care programs offer care during nontraditional hours.
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To parents who can't afford child care, Ms. Laditan suggested trading child care tasks with other work-at-home parents, as she did.
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These grants could also be used by states to help build, renovate, or expand child care facilities in areas with child care shortages.
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Similarly, on the child care front, insufficient funding means that many families are left without support and child care workers are poorly paid.
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Despite the high costs of child care, 81 percent of families still feel their child-care plan is worth investing their money in.
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Combined with substandard child care subsidy reimbursement rates, the situation puts enormous strain — economic, mental and emotional — on home-based child care providers.
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According to Child Care Aware of America, the average cost of child care is over $20,000 per year in most parts of the country.
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Withdrawals aren't taxed as long as you use them for qualified child-care expenses, including traditional child care, after-school programs and school tuition.
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The toxicity of his words infected the debate over child care for decades — and helped bury the history of public child care in America.
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Ours is an economy in which wages have stagnated and the cost of child care has soared — and, paradoxically, child care providers remain underpaid.
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She also wants to ensure that working families have affordable child care – paying no more than 10 percent of their income for child care.
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To create the kind of child care and early education needed to produce long-term gains, child care providers need adequate funding and oversight.
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Their parents have to find alternative child care arrangements, making tough choices between quality, affordable, and accessible child care and their family's economic sustainability.
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Working parents require child care, and the typical American family spends 93 percent of its after-tax income on child-care costs, compared with 10 percent or less in many other Western democracies, where child care is provided for or heavily subsidized by the state.
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We propose a child care "assurance" that provides all families with a child under age five with financial assistance to make good child care affordable.
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"My child care plan allows for every family in America to deduct their child care expenses from their income taxes," Trump says in the video.
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The cost of child care for two kids is about on par with housing expenses, according to a report from Child Care Aware of America.
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Child care startups, including home-based daycare networks, apps for finding child care, and benefits and business management software, are working hard to help families.
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Child care and other women's workplace policy issues are more of an Ivanka thing, and Trump has only mentioned child care twice on the campaign trail.
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It would cap child care at 7 percent of family incomes on a sliding scale, increase wages for early childhood educators, and target child care deserts.
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In most states, child care gobbles up at least a third of non-preschool child care workers' incomes, and it's more than half in many cases.
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The annual cost of child care can compare to college tuition in some parts of the country, according to data from Child Care Aware of America.
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Trump, during the presidential campaign, introduced a policy proposal for child care that included tax reform enabling working families to deduct the costs of child care.
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"That's the kind of money where we could pay for child care, high quality child care, for all of our kids," Warren told MSNBC last Thursday.
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Currently, people can qualify for tax benefits for child care expenses only if they use child care to allow them to work or look for work.
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The congresswoman said child care concerns often dissuade women from running for office — but she hopes offering child care can help encourage more women to run.
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That bill also included a $5.8 billion commitment to the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), which helps millions of working families afford child care.
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Finally, deregulation of inane child care regulations, such as Washington, D.C.'s new requirement that child care workers obtain college degrees, will make work economically practical.
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It would give young children access to affordable early child care and education, with families paying at most 7 percent of their income on child care.
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Some parents struggle with finding child care over the summer, some parents struggle with paying for child care over the summer, and some struggle with both.
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I, too, pay a monthly child care bill that rivals many college tuitions; I would love to see a plan that would provide cheap child care.
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When it comes to child care, the proposed Child Tax Credit expansion is too small to help nonworking parents who can't afford child care at all.
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On Tuesday, Warren introduced the Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act, which reduces child care costs to families while improving both quality and caregiver pay. Rep.
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There's also very little room for advancement in the child care field, and education and experience don't do a whole lot to boost child care workers' earnings.
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Often, the only way that low-income families can afford care is through state child care subsidies, funded through the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant.
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By contrast, Mr Trump would let families deduct the cost of child care from their taxes, up to its average cost of child care in their area.
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By devoting a few months to working in child care programs, they will gain valuable insights into the essential role that child care plays in children's development.
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The tax, she says, could pay for a slew of programs, including student debt relief, universal pre-K, child care and increased pay for child care workers.
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"Families are really struggling with the crisis of paying for child care," said Michelle McCready, chief of public policy and research at Child Care Aware of America.
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During the campaign, Trump proposed using tax credits, a tax deduction, and child care savings accounts to help cover the cost of child care for some Americans.
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Most couples mutually decide that mom will do 65 percent of the hands-on child care and dad will shoulder 65 percent of the financial child care.
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Elizabeth Warren is set to release a sweeping universal child care plan on Tuesday that would guarantee child care from birth until the time children enter school.
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Now, consider two existing programs: child-care subsidies for low-income families, and a child-care tax credit that higher-income families with such expenses can claim.
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Warren introduced her Universal Child Care and Early Learning plan last February that aimed to spend $700 billion over 10 years to create federally funded, but locally run child care centers nationwide that offer free child care for those who earn up to 200% of the federal poverty level.
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Her proposal for universal child care would make the service free to any family earning up to double the federal poverty level, and would increase wages for child care workers — two initiatives that could particularly affect black and Latino communities, where informal child-care arrangements are more common.
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But this year, multiple presidential candidates have released plans that provide for child care or universal preschool, and others have expressed support for child care legislation in Congress.
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After years of concerns about the quality of subsidized child care, changes to the program in 2014 focused on supporting higher quality child care for low income children.
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The child care deductions won't help families who earn too little income to pay taxes, and the proposed credit rebates are too low to adequately cover child care.
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Yet the underprovision of child care, and the the shortage of licensed, quality care in particular, is one of the key failings of the American child care system.
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She has also proposed expanding access to free preschool and capping child care expenses at 7 percent of parents' income, with free child care for low-income families.
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She has also proposed expanding access to free preschool and capping child care expenses at 7 percent of parents' income, with free child care for low-income families.
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Following in Elizabeth Warren's footsteps, Pete Buttigieg released a child care plan in November that proposed spending $210 billion over the next decade on child care and education.
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A lot of people want to stay with their families because child care is extremely expensive and unless you have family, there's no way to afford child care.
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"This is not a true investment in child care," Catherine White, the director of child care and early learning at the National Women's Law Center, wrote in March.
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The legislation would create a federal-state partnership to address high-quality child care, add new regulations for federal child care centers, provide support to members of the child care workforce by improving compensation and training, and support the creation of universal pre-school programs for children aged 3 and 4.
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Child care centers in Maryland also saw changes during the test period, with state child care facilities having to provide healthy drinks while offering support to breast-feeding moms.
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While everyone supports higher quality child care, Congress needs to recognize the need to support employment for low income parents with increased access to flexible and subsidized child care.
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"My plan will also help reduce the cost of child care by allowing parents to fully deduct the average cost of child care spending from their taxes," he said.
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With average child care expenses exceeding the cost of rent and college tuition in most states, this rebate will barely make a dent in most families' child care bills.
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For parents struggling to find options, she recommends checking with organizations such as Child Care Aware and local Child Care Resource and Referral agencies may be able to help.
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Funded through a proposed new millionaires tax, Warren's plan calls for more subsidized child-care centers nationwide to ease the burden of child-care costs on family finances. Sen.
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Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke also back forms of universal child care, supporting the Child Care for Working Families Act introduced earlier this year.
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The child-care proposal she announced this February puts funds into creating high-quality child care but doesn't offer equivalent subsidies to parents who stay home with their children.
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She has a proposal to provide grants to minority entrepreneurs, and her child care plan would raise the wages of child care workers, who are disproportionately women of color.
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Trump's child care plan would allow households making less than $500,000 a year to deduct the average cost of child care in their state, for up to four children.
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"My universal child care plan would guarantee access to high-quality, affordable child care and early learning to every kid from 0 to 5 in America," Warren told Vox.
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In 2015, Obama proposed eliminating child care flexible spending accounts, tripling the maximum credit for child care, and making it available to households making as much as $120,000 per year.
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On Tuesday, she re-introduced the Child Care For Working Families Act, which aims to create a federal policy that will provide high-quality affordable child care to all parents.
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The Trump administration has also tackled child care policies, with President Donald Trump signing off an on $2.4 billion funding increase for the Child Care and Development Fund last year.
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"In some instances, new marijuana legalization laws actually contradict existing child-care regulations, which can result in unintended consequences that can put children in child care at risk," Grossman said.
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The universal child care policy is of personal significance to Warren because she believes that, more than once, her career almost went off track because of challenges with child care.
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In Massachusetts, families are paying an average annual cost of $226,230 to place an infant and a 4673-year-old in center-based child care, according to Child Care Aware.
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Social conservatives argue that merely subsidizing child care or leave rather than offering a child credit favors families getting center-based child care over stay-at-home parents or family caregivers like grandparents, aunts and uncles, or cousins, and libertarian analysts resented the paternalism of requiring families to use money on child care.
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Along with increases in the minimum wage, and reforms such as those proposed in the Child Care for Working Families Act, which will improve the quality and quantity of child care and increase wages for child care teachers, more parents will be able go to work knowing their children are nurtured and safe.
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Warren's plan on universal child care, which she unveiled earlier this year, would take a different approach to covering the costs of child care by levying a tax on the ultra-wealthy, ensuring that universal child care would be free for all families earning less than 200 percent of the poverty line.
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And implementing universal child care in the U.S. would far from unprecedented: In 1971, Congress passed legislation to implement universal, federally subsidized child care — but President Richard Nixon vetoed the bill.
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" She added, "It is important that states update their child care regulations and use precise language to better protect children from unintended exposure to marijuana or from impaired child care providers.
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The article argued against any universal government child care assistance because it would go to well-to-do families, but it also repeated language from Republicans who fearmongered about child care.
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Indeed, child care investment has become an election issue, with a number of Democratic candidates unveiling ambitious plans to make child care more affordable while boosting the wages of workers. Sen.
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The child care credit, also called the dependent care credit, offers tax relief for child care costs incurred by working single parents and by married couples in which both parents work.
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According to surveys, the main reason is the high (and growing) cost of child care — a problem that a "good economy" alone doesn't fix, since child care is so labor-intensive.
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A spokesperson for the campaign told Vox that Castro planned to release his own child care policy in future, and noted that the candidate had praised Warren's universal child care plan.
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The Chamber's Center for Education and the Workforce encourages corporations to first study their employee base and understand its needs, and then choose from a range of options to support employee child-care needs, including providing child-care centers at work sites, working to fund community child-care services, reserving spots within existing third-party programs for employees, funding backup child-care options for workers and pooling resources among small business to make the benefit cost-effective.
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In Alaska, according to a 2019 report from Child Care Aware of America, there are nearly 40,000 children under the age of six with parents in the labor force, yet there are only about 850 licensed center-based and family child care homes in the state, which provide just 23,851 licensed child care slots.
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He also wants to boost the percentage of families who receive child care subsidies through the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) and expand the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC) to "allow more low-income and middle-class parents to deduct the cost of child care expenses," according to the campaign.
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States could apply for the funding and use it to support child care providers but would have to "establish targets for reducing unnecessary regulatory or other requirements that limit the supply or increase the cost of child care," Ivanka Trump, who has made child care one of her signature issues, told NPR in March.
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Even if families can afford child care, they may not be able to find it because half of the country lives in a child care desert, where supply is not meeting demand.
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At the same time, Warren's plan would create new, national quality standards for child care centers and raise child care workers' wages to look similar to those of local public school teachers.
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Scott's bill, the Child Care for Working Families Act, would aim to ensure that no low- to moderate-income family spends more than 7 percent of their household income on child care.
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The bill would provide cost-sharing between the federal government and states to provide child care from birth through age 13 and double the number of children eligible for child care assistance.
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While my own university has an on-site child care center, many Silicon Valley companies, for example -- while offering their workers perks like free beer and fitness centers -- don't provide child care.
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The signature child-care initiative of second-wave feminists was the Comprehensive Child Development Act of 1971, a bill that would have established a national network of federally funded child care centers.
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Universal child care, this economist, by the way an economist who worked for President Obama, he did a study of universal child care in Quebec, where by the way they speak French.
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The Child Care Workforce and Facilities Act works to address part of this problem by providing competitive grants to states to support the education, training, or retention of the child care workforce.
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But while child care affordability impacts virtually all parents, the particular concern Warren is raising of child care expenses forcing a woman "off the track" of career success is a bit idiosyncratic.
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Two-thirds of public funding for child care is provided through the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF), but only 16 percent of all children eligible under federal rules received subsidies in 2013.
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Marie, one of our EHS family child care providers, welcomed James into her program and, like she did with all of her child care children, loved and treated James like her own.
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Supported by 22019 senators and endorsed by over 100 organizations serving children and families, The Child Care for Working Families Act addresses the massive child care crisis in our nation head on.
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While both plans talk about providing aid to help with the cost of child care, neither campaign has addressed the very important issue of how to improve the quality of child care.
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The high cost of child care doesn't even have the silver lining of providing decent jobs for child care workers, who are so poorly paid they may be eligible for food stamps.
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Will Trump's group of white male advisors understand how important affordable, quality child care is for working families, or how important it is for child care providers to be paid a living wage?
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That could have a substantial impact on the family budget: Average child-care costs exceed the average mortgage payment in 24 states and Washington, D.C., according to Child Care Aware America's 2015 report.
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Under Warren's proposed plan, the federal government would partner with local providers — including states, cities, school districts and nonprofits — to provide access to child care centers, preschool centers, and in-home child care.
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It includes an historic doubling in funding for the Child Care Development Block Grant program that will allow access to high-quality child care programs for an additional 200,000 low-income American kids.
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Ensuring that every family has access to child care, and that people running the programs are paid a fair and living wage, are also the key elements of Warren's universal child care plan.
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In addition, Harris said she would push for passage of the Child Care for Working Families Act to cap the percentage of income that low- and middle-income families spend on child care.
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Lynette Fraga is executive director of Child Care Aware® of America, a national membership-based nonprofit organization founded in 1987 to advance affordability, accessibility, development and learning of children in child care.
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Meanwhile, the high costs of child care for families don't translate to high wages for child care workers, most of whom are women and about 0003 percent of whom are women of color.
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The biggest difference between the plans is that the Child Care for Working Families Act builds on the existing Child Care and Development Block Grant program, while Warren's plan creates a new system.
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Target's backup child care plan is similar to Best Buy's.
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O'Rourke has yet to announce a position on child care.
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We don't run detention centers, we run child care centers.
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It's actually not impossible to imagine passing universal child care.
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Everywhere, families and workers are living the child care crisis.
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Remember, though: The ugly chairs came with free child care.
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The organization is providing free or discounted child care service.
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How the child care tax credit might affect your family.
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Mental and physical health may be taxed by child care.
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"The cost of child care is incredibly onerous," she said.
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Today: a child care assistant who makes $19,6.503 per year.
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Shimanto offers subsidised child care and housing for new arrivals.
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Eligible child care expenses are limited to $225,22 per family.
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Here's where Clinton stands on maternity leave and child care.
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Child care is an essential piece of our country's infrastructure.
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Housing, health care, child care — costs are out of sight.
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In most states, child care is more expensive than college.
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"Child care is such a big problem," he said Tuesday.
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Tax cuts that work for child care, education and retirement.
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AND THE CHILD CARE CREDIT ISA BIG ASPECT OF THIS.
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Proposals for baby bonds, child care, why not school lunches?
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In 2015, Oklahoma spent $126 million on child care subsidies.
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What about Ivanka's push for a comprehensive child care policy?
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Policies that encourage parents to share child care help, too.
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It was too soon; she needed work and child care.
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Parents now spend more time and money on child care.
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"My wife and I split the child care," he says.
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"We should pool together for child care," Mr. Swalwell joked.
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Like: Why is child care so expensive in this country?
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More than $3 billion in emergency funding for child care.
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That's significantly above what the government deems "affordable" child care.
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The traditional child care setting is closed by 6 p.m.
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"Probably the biggest burden is child care," Bovino told CNBC.
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You can find reliable, affordable child care on the road.
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Warren has also proposed a sweeping universal child care plan.
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Just as at home, vacation child care needs vary wildly.
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By taking turns with babysitting duties, child care is free.
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The US military has an outstanding model of child care.
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But child care became a necessity for more working parents.
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And lack of child care is probably one main reason.
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Who would assume your child care or elder care responsibilities?
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The cost of child care, however, she could tell me.
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Conservatives have suggested expanding the existing child care tax credit.
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Other candidates back more incremental ways to address child care.
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The data set EPI analyzed doesn't include self-employed child care workers, who make up about a quarter of the child care workforce and tend to make even less money, based on other estimates.
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In 8.2012 Congress approved more than $5.2bn in "child care and development block grants", which subsidise child care for low-income families, nearly doubling available funding and indicating a rare example of bipartisan collaboration.
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No matter how large their child care costs may be -- and no matter how much they struggle to pay them -- something (the child care costs) times nothing (the income tax rate) is always nothing.
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The federal government currently provides two tax breaks for child care for working parents: the child and dependent care tax credit and the ability to pay for child care with a flexible spending account.
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Details of Trump's plan Trump's plan calls for making child care expenses fully tax-deductible, capped at the average cost of child care in the taxpayers' state of residence, for up to four children.
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Child Care Aware estimates $2120 billion is lost each year when employees are absent or less productive due to child-care issues; the Chamber has provided its own estimate of $3 billion lost annually.
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Meanwhile, some are advocating that any economic bailout in the US related to the coronavirus could include investment in America's child care infrastructure, since the availability of child care supports so many other industries.
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That's why when Warren said that her wealth tax would pay for universal child care for children ages 0 to 5, as well as raising the wages of child care providers, it stuck out.
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And last year, Congress approved a $2.4 billion increase of the Child Care and Development Block Grant to provide federal child care assistance to states, the biggest increase since the program began in 1990.
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Meanwhile, Trump's only child care proposal has been the idea of creating a one-off grant program designed to give states extra money if they agreed to lower quality standards for child care settings.
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There were more than 210 million child care workers in the US in 22017, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, including those working in child care centers as well as in private homes.
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To the Editor: Katha Pollitt hits on practically every reason that affordable, high-quality child care should be a top priority for policymakers, including the plight faced by child care workers, who are underpaid.
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The bill would create a network of federally funded but locally run child care centers around the country and ensure that no family spends more than 7 percent of its annual income on child care.
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That made it hard to afford child care, which leads to point #103: None of our immediate family in the area can afford to retire and help with child care, even though they want to.
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Mr. Trump would make child care costs tax deductible, which means the biggest benefits would flow to the highest-income households, while doing little or nothing for low-income families that can't afford child care.
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Access to adequate child care for all has become a "global" need, said Shelley Clark, a demographer and professor of sociology at McGill University in Canada, who has studied child care and other family dynamics.
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Across the country, the average annual cost of child care is approaching parity with the cost of in-state tuition at some universities, according to data from Child Care Aware of America, an advocacy group.
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And my Child Care Access Means Parents in Schools Reauthorization Act would increase access to on-campus child care for student parents, who make up more than one-quarter of all college students in America.
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The Child Care and Development Fund, a state-federal partnership that funds child-care vouchers for low-income working parents, is currently so underfunded that it can serve less than one-quarter of eligible children.
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Non-profit and community based organizations that work with and support home-based child care businesses, offer them vital services including the educational and business supports they need to run sustainable, quality child care programs.
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In Monique Rosas's case, she ultimately found a child care provider that helped her to access a child care subsidy so that her son could participate in a high-quality program that she could afford.
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Williamson said in a statement to Vox that she supports a new child care tax credit worth up to $2000,22013 per child, which would be paid directly to child care providers on a monthly basis.
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Child care positions aren't usually thought of as high-paying jobs.
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And so began the massive, time-consuming search for child care.
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The Child Care for Working Families Act is floating around Congress.
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The suits also name Koon's onetime employer, ABC Kidz Child Care.
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We are ambivalent about putting young children into child care situations.
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Some child care centers offer this device, which has mixed reactions.
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Form W-10 Do you used child care or dependent care?
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Child care costs are big-ticket items on this list. Care.
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Danish child-care centres focus on play rather than formal tuition.
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Here's where Donald Trump stands on maternity leave and child care.
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Trump also vowed to introduce a deduction for child care costs.
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Because we don't have Universal Child Care in the United States.
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Mandates higher pay for child care workers to ensure better care.
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For example, you could have additional child-care or medical expenses.
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Affordable child care for infants helps parents enter the labor force.
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As wages have sputtered, child care, medical and education expenses soar.
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Mr Trump's policy is really to subsidise parenthood, not child care.
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It makes an important differentiation between schools and child care centers.
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For addiction, that means counseling, housing support, job training, child care.
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That's for the parents who can even get professional child care.
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Despite the benefits, child care is simply unaffordable for many families.
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Proper child care also lays the foundation for future productivity gains.
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Working Americans can't afford decent, quality child care for their children.
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Over the years, the demand for child care has increased dramatically.
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Trump has focused her efforts on making child care more affordable.
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Let's approach universal child care the way we approach public education.
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The effects likely come from these programs' function as child care.
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She often helps with child care for her sister's younger children.
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He also expanded some child care assistance for low-income families.
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They also addressed taxes, health care, child care and criminal justice.
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Even universal child care seems to have slipped from the agenda.
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So would improving pay for child care and other care workers.
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And he now supports an expanded tax credit for child care.
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In particular, I'm inspired by her plan for universal child care.
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We've agreed to share all of the child care and housework.
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They could then use that money to pay for child care.
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Child care and education seem impossible for all but the wealthiest.
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She also founded a service to screen prospective child-care providers.
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Their next was for child care so Sara could finish school.
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Transportation and child-care issues don't go away, Mr. Jones said.
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Child care, of course, is a challenge for many working parents.
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My dad and his sisters provided child care for each other.
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" Mr. Rose asked, invoking Ms. Tate and her unborn child. "Care?
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Her organization's new brief on child care can be read here.
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Child care isn't just necessary so families can earn a living.
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To parents who need paid family leave and affordable child care.
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I think we shouldn't view Quinn's child care skills so harshly.
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It can also underwrite our elder care and child care crises.
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Employers and child care workers should be clear about their expectations.
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"Actually my plan is universal child care for everyone," she said.
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Child care costs in the US have skyrocketed in recent years.
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Universal child care, student loan debt, and political corruption are in.
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States rarely require child care providers to have a college degree.
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Child care centers in America operate on incredibly thin profit margins.
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Skyrocketing housing costs, pricey child care, the crowds and relentless traffic.
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It also offers in-home backup child care and elder care.
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Giving tax breaks for child care is not simply redistributing income.
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Elizabeth Warren's proposal to create a new federal child care system.
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Doubling the child-care tax credit for more than 200,000 families.
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Elizabeth Warren recently endorsed a universal federal provision of child care.
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The child care crisis has a huge effect on women's employment.
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Unlike in Hungary, child care in Sweden is free for all.
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What happens when a child-care center bans the cheese sticks?
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The players also wanted policies for maternity leave and child care.
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Contributing Opinion Writer Child care is not something nice to have.
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More child care spots won't necessarily mean parents can afford them.
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The Child Care and Development Block Grant — that's a specific program.
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The deduction includes the following kinds of families with child care expenses for up to four children under the age of 2000: The first two groups would deduct their actual child care expenses up to the state average cost of care, while the third could deduct the full amount of the state average, despite incurring no actual child care expenses.
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Scott introduced the Child Care for Working Families Act, which would ensure that families earning less than 150 percent of their state's median income spend no more than 7 percent of their income on child care.
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Health consultants who visit child care programs on a regular basis can play an important role in ensuring that child care programs are safe and healthy, and that children are getting appropriate preventative care and treatment.
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Three candidates with universal child care plans may not sound like all that much — but consider that before this race, no major candidate running for the White House had mentioned universal child care since the 1970s.
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Republican women in Congress, who often work at the fringe of their party on federal child care matters, have still found themselves shunned by Democrats who dismiss their child care and income equality proposals as insufficient.
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The proposal also calls for dedicated savings accounts in which families could invest pretax income to cover child care and elder care costs, as well as incentives for employers to provide child care in the workplace.
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Three other candidates — Kamala Harris, Beto O'Rourke and Eric Swalwell — also support universal child care, according to Vox, although through congressional Democrats' more complicated bill to bolster the availability and affordability of child care and preschool.
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What to watch: Child care: One incoming lawmaker, Katie Porter, told Axios she's found encouragement from the "Moms of the House" group as she anticipates the high cost of child care as a single mom in Congress.
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As Vox's Anna North recently wrote, child care is on the agenda in the Democratic primary: After years of being treated like a side issue, child care is finally moving toward the center of the national conversation.
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In conjunction with their 6900 Policy Summit, Child Care Aware of America (CCAoA) is hosting 2628 family advocates from across the country to engage with lawmakers on increasing federal funding for early child care and education programs.
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Imagine, for instance, a "Civilian Care Corps" that provides much-needed child care, shores up elder care for an aging populace, and addresses the widening geographic and economic inequalities in our national health and child care sectors.
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In 30 states and Washington, D.C., the annual cost of sending an infant to a child-care center exceeds the annual in-state tuition and fees at a public college, according to Child Care Aware of America.
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Home-based child care is here for these families, offering more affordable and flexible options than other institutional child care settings, providing care that works for parents trying to make ends meet and just barely getting by.
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His 2020 budget earmarked $1 billion to increase affordable child care options in underserved communities across the U.S. Additionally, Trump signed off on a $2.4 billion funding increase for the Child Care and Development Fund last year.
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As Kliff pointed out at Vox earlier this year, a child care proposal recently put forth by the left-wing People's Policy Project also includes a subsidy to help stay-at-home parents meet child care needs.
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The message related to her focus on child care and family leave.
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Kids: What's the average cost of child care in your home state?
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For instance, the government does very little on the child care front.
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Child care is expensive, and tracking down convenient options is not easy.
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When these parents do return to work, child care options are expensive.
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Koon raped four children at ABC Kidz Child Care in Elyria, Ohio.
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Or make child care the subject of his first big economic proposal.
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This includes introducing policies like paid parental leave and affordable child care.
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By refusing to talk to them, have you lost free child care?
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She recently fell behind on her monthly child care payments for Styles.
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"The whole nine months, I was looking for child care," she says.
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Most child-care workers get little training and are paid a pittance.
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You seem to believe that your mother owes you regular child care.
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Child care benefits will also rise, costing the budget 8.6 billion crowns.
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Flexible schedules help parents who want to juggle work and child care.
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Parents could write the cost of child care off on their taxes.
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Added source of government revenue for child care proposal and other programs.
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In America full-time child care costs 211% of the median rent.
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Let's be sure we have affordable child care and debt-free college.
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Key criticisms Lacks detail how high quality child care will be ensured.
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Ivanka Trump rolled out her father's child care proposal there, as well.
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In most places, few workers opt for holidays or child-care allowances.
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What is Marianne Williamson's plan for child care and other children's issues?
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They call for increased health and safety requirements for child care providers.
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Myles' grandmother, Brenda Watts, also paid St. Charles for Myles' child care.
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Notably absent, however, is a child-care facility, reported online magazine Quartz.
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In the equation of children's health, we often overlook child care providers.
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Every parent knows that child care is expensive, and getting more so.
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One would be subsidized child care, for after parents return to work.
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That's because the country has a perennial shortage of child care services.
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The former teacher also operated a child-care business from her garage.
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She was discussing Mr. Trump's assertion that he provides child care services.
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Let's be sure we have affordable child care and debt-free college.
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Medical and child care benefits have been expanded and grievance procedures reinstated.
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Affluent families often already have access to high-quality child care resources.
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He also borrowed elements of a free child care program from her.
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Government spending on child care for young children has the strongest effect.
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"Don't underestimate the value of good food and child care," he replied.
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Among the top unpaid contributions to society are child care and cooking.
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Paid family leave, subsidized child care and flexible schedules are not widespread.
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I received assistance from the government for food, child care and utilities.
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I received assistance from the government for food, child care and utilities.
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Child care, once anathema for children under 3, has been vastly extended.
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Her Swiss-born mother, Christel (Hofmann) Krugovoy, was a child-care provider.
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They can provide a Metro card for public transportation, or child care.
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It can spend more money on education, child care and health care.
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If schools closed, as a single mother she'd have no child care.
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Child care workers, school staff and retail workers have been laid off.
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During the academic year, school serves as child care for many families.
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When possible, resist gender roles in housework and child care among parents.
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His parents founded and operate a child-care center there, Ranjana's Daycare.
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We had universal child care once, the line goes — why not again?
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Other proposals, such as free child care, he's come to more recently.
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Are housework and child care equal to paid work outside the home?
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The economic case for tax relief for child care costs is straightforward.
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But that difference is exactly why the child care credit is needed.
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Other states with affordable child care include Delaware, Maryland and New Jersey.
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Child-care costs have continued to rise over the past four years.
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His program to make child care more affordable for middle-class families.
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The single biggest kid-specific expense for many families is child care.
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Why child care over, say, loading the dishwasher or doing the laundry?
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There are few lactation facilities, there's a paucity of child care support.
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"The cost of child care alone was astronomical," Ms. Medina, 37, said.
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Under the plan, the U.S. government would fund universal free child care.
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Read more: "Five Tips for Finding Child Care for Your Next Vacation"
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The bill also recognizes the importance of public support for child care.
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Lengthy commutes, grueling workloads and limited child care aren't a problem here.
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And raise the wages of every child-care worker and preschool teacher.
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The bulk of what Christina earns goes toward rent and child care.
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A few brought their children, because money for child care was scarce.
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Second, they view child care as an investment in their lifelong earnings.
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She also supports increased wages for child care workers, and universal preschool.
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So too can the cost of child care for parents who donate.
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Many child care programs also aren't well suited for working parents' schedules.
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One hundred years ago child care meant putting the kid to work.
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Somebody could do the exact same thing on the child care side.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren is making universal child care one of the priorities of her 2020 presidential campaign, unveiling a plan Tuesday that would ensure every family can have access to high-quality child care, regardless of their income.
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Trump, speaking alongside Ivanka, said he would seek to make child care expenses tax deductible for families earning less than $500,000 and called for establishing tax-free accounts to be used for child care and child enrichment activities.
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Donald Trump, whose campaign has been almost entirely policy-free, broke with tradition in August with a child care plan which called for making child care expenses tax-deductible, a policy which Ivanka played a role in crafting.
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"The most significant message we're sharing in this report is that child care is unaffordable across the U.S., and it's often a significant burden for parents," said Lynette Fraga, Ph.D., executive director of Child Care Aware of America.
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" Walks back child care comments When asked about Trump's new child care plan that the businessman unveiled on Tuesday with the help of his daughter Ivanka, Pence said that it's Trump's "appreciation for the role of working women.
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Under Warren's proposal, the federal government would partner with local governments, nonprofits, faith-based organizations and others to create a network of options for child care, such as day care centers, preschools and in-home child care options.
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According to the letter, the director of the child care center set up "shifts" for when female employees could have children to avoid too many workers taking leave in a nation facing a scarcity of child care options.
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SUBSIDIZE CHILD CARE, and do it in a way that allows parents to make the choices that are best for their families, whether that means a stipend, access to backup child care memberships or bulk discounts on care.
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The true cost of child care in America In the United States, couples spend 57.73% of their income on child care costs and that number soars to 257.7% for single parents, according to the report from the OECD.
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In fact, the average family spends over $11,000 to utilize a child care center to watch their infant, about $73,000 for toddlers and over $9,000 for four-year-olds, according to Child Care Aware of America's 21 report.
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Yet child care costs have risen so much that it is now less expensive to pay for in-state college tuition than child care, putting quality care out of reach of many low- and even middle-income families.
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Qualifying families can claim the lesser of 7.65 percent of their child care expenses or 3.825 percent of the single parent's income or the lesser-earning spouse's income, capped at the average cost of child care per state.
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Even if the woman is high-skilled, making work more lucrative than saving on child care costs, the gap between her wages and the price of child care reflects the benefit to the economy of her choosing to work.
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Bernie Sanders, for example, released a plan last month to provide free child care to all who need it (former Vice President Joe Biden has yet to release a child care plan, though he has called for universal preschool).
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Child Care and paid maternity leave One of the few bright spots that women's advocates see in a Trump administration are proposals championed by Ivanka Trump to require paid maternity leave and offer expanded tax credits for child care.
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The FY 2018 appropriations bill passed in the Senate includes an increase of $2.37 billion in the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), funding that is critical in supporting child care professionals, providers and families across the country.
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Women do the bulk of the unpaid work — cooking, cleaning and child care.
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He will focus on making quality child care affordable and accessible for all.
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"I wish it didn't take the women to address child care," Richards said.
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Commentary by Michelle McCready, chief of policy at Child Care Aware of America.
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Passing universal child care would be an expensive and complicated endeavor, Hegewisch said.
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Alexander's gesture even inspired other professors to offer students help with child care.
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Go deeper: A new front in the job war: paying for child care
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For a mom with depression, child-care can add to the daily struggle.
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Catholic Charities used $400 from the fund to cover the child care payment.
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Hillary Clinton is spending her time at coffee shops and child care centers.
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Public investment in child care can have a much wider impact, she said.
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Households where both parents work have to pay for extra child care, too.
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Anonymous For the record, you and your husband are definitely backup child care.
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Flint has two new child-care centres serving 500 young patients, she notes.
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The issue of child care is getting serious attention in this presidential election.
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Access to affordable child care, paid parental leave and flexible working all help.
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Traveling to a wedding requires planning, finding child care and some significant costs.
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This meant an infusion of new funds for these services, especially child care.
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According to Warren, her child care plan rests upon four policy pillars: 1.
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Unfortunately, there's no effective way to outsource fixed costs like child care or .
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For millions of families, especially single moms, child care is not a luxury.
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Child-care and preschool workers would be paid comparable to public teacher pay.
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John Delaney (D-MD) — has not yet answered Vox's question about child care.
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It can be child care — it can be taking care of a child.
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Sanders introduced legislation in 23 that would fund universal child care through kindergarten.
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Trump is expected to announce he would make child-care costs fully deductible.
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For families paying for child care, the current tax break offers little relief.
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The unaffordability of child care is pushing some lawmakers to take more action.
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Not every mother will want to fight for better child care policies, either.
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The money could be put toward private school tuition, rather than child care.
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"Because of that, child care tends to be a huge expense," said Reardon.
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Their legislators approved tax write-offs for corporate jets, but not child care.
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And in most wealthy countries, they also have access to affordable child care.
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The entire state and federal government can't be bothered to provide child care.
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Will marijuana (either medical or recreational) be stored in the child care facility?
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If she had a job, child care was more expensive than her wages.
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Right now, you've got child-care workers making McDonald's wages, that is crazy.
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I wasn't able to pay for child care on top of everything else.
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A representative from ABC Kidz Child Care declined to comment on the case.
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I made the decisions about their education, activities, travel, child care and allowances.
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Child care facilities providing services that enable essential employees to go to work.
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Yet our political leaders tend to refuse to view child care as work.
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She had been working part time and doing more of the child care.
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As Terkel and Delaney note, child care responsibilities still fall disproportionately on mothers.
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Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Bernie Sanders, support universal access to child care.
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Men, she says, have to do more of the housework and child care.
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Health care, child-care and groceries are all mutual markets in these parts.
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She isn't pushing for a byzantine system of tax credits for child care.
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What's more, paying for child care is almost impossible for millions of Americans.
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This lack of affordable quality child care is a crisis for American families.
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The festival also provided child care spaces for attendees for the first time.
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"We didn't have child care, so that was my job," Blotnick, 39, said.
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This spring, home child-care workers won more than a 4 percent raise.
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In many cases, they still can't make child care or student loan payments.
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With so much financial pressure, they rely on her mother for child care.
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Luckily, I don't have to worry about child care, like many other workers.
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Luckily, I don't have to worry about child care, like many other workers.
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Alaska and Minnesota are certainly among those states dotted with child care deserts.
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Few sectors of our economy are as neglected and undervalued as child care.
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The groom's father founded Children's Country Daycare, a child-care center in Thornton.
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But Tara, robotically tending to chores and child care, feels depressed and lost.
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If schools close, what if you don't have ready access to child care?
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And did I mention that child care often costs more than college tuition?
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Perhaps the biggest stressor for parents with unpredictable schedules was finding child care.
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For instance, the company may subsidize child care or offer lucrative bonus opportunities.
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Child care doesn't get more affordable just because the unemployment rate is low.
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The top finding: Most families pay an uncomfortably high amount for child care.
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Federal child-care tax credits do not provide enough to cover the cost.
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There can be little doubt that child care costs are tied to work.
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Here is a sampling of what child care looks like around the world.
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In Detroit, Trump proposed giving parents a tax break for child care expenses.
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Research shows that child care subsidy receipt increases employment and reduces work disruptions.
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On a professional level, I also understand the importance of quality child care.
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A shortage of good schools, child care, home health care workers and E.M.T.s.
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His wife's family lives there and the couple needed help with child care.
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Working parents need a quiet place to focus, and they need child care.
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As Parker noted, the costs of child care can be substantial for families.
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Then there are child-care emergencies, groceries to buy and errands to run.
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Research shows that lowering out-of-pocket child care costs can boost employment.
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Notably, none involved traditional women's issues such as equal pay or child care.
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Not counting the cost of child care after the paid leave is over.
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But the child-care cause is important to Mr. Trump's older daughter, Ivanka.
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To the Editor: President Trump's commitment to child care is welcome and timely.
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"I've been at this awhile on child care and Pre-K," he said.
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So child care really should be an important part of the progressive agenda.
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Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Canadian and British parents ramped up their child care, too.
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Why not add free child care to the nearly endless menu of benefits?
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Even with flexibility and good child care set up, plenty will go wrong.
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And America's child care system (or lack thereof) is also bad for kids.
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Some argue that child care should be free to everyone, regardless of income.
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Wages have stagnated, while real estate, medical and child care costs have skyrocketed.
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Parents may have to find alternate child care or meal arrangements, for starters.
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The high cost of child care is a significant barrier for working Americans.
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Youngsters sick with diarrhea should not be placed in child care, according to the CDC, and following a cryptosporidiosis outbreak, child care workers should clean surfaces with hydrogen peroxide, as chlorine bleach is an ineffective means of killing the parasite.
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Patty Murray of Washington state and her colleagues introduced a bill last fall that would offer states money to implement universal pre-K and increase child care subsidies, while the Congressional Progressive Caucus's budget calls for child care for all.
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In 30 states and Washington, D.C., the annual cost of sending an infant to a child care center exceeds the annual in-state tuition and fees at a public college, according to new data from Child Care Aware of America.
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This fiscal year's budget has increased public spending on child care to record levels, but the Child Care and Development Block Grant — which gives states money to put in parents' pockets — is only helping about one-sixth of those eligible.
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Before Congress appropriates the next round of funds for child care, lawmakers should revisit the current direction of the program and consider alternative ways, such as refundable tax credits, to serve the child care needs of more low income children.
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RELATED: How Trump's budget may undercut Ivanka's agenda He also suggested making child care expenses tax deductible for families earning less than $500,000 and called for establishing tax-free accounts to be used for child care and child enrichment activities.
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"Mexico has started to look at options for expanding child care access for low-income families, and in India too, the government has supported some projects trying to expand access to child care, primarily in the rural areas," she said.
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In 2006, a federal study gave a "high quality" rating to only 10 percent of the nation's child care programs, and the proportion today is almost certainly smaller, since government financing for child care has declined in the past decade.
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According to the Center for American Progress, in 2011, 22 states had waiting lists for child care assistance, and just one in seven children who qualify for a direct child care subsidy in their state or community actually receives it.
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But if middle class and working class and poor families can be relieved of the impossible burden of today's child care wilderness by sharing the same safe, regulated child care experience, it might just be pretty great for the country.
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Without child care, it's much more difficult to leave a violent or dangerous home because it involves moving yourself and your children away from your only sources of child care, which are typically hyper-local — a neighbor or a relative.
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Child care is often one of the largest expenses associated with a new baby, both because parents take time off from work and see their incomes decrease, and because they hire nannies or enroll their kids in child-care centers.
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Either the government provides child care and runs buses, or it doesn't; making how much child care it provides or how many buses are available dependent on the state of the economy would be odd at best and counterproductive at worst.
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States and municipalities have implemented their own patchwork of child care initiatives, but the bulk of the existing federal help for child care lies in one big federal program that gives money to the states and programs like Head Start.
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That frees parents to go out to work, saving huge sums on child care.
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The topic of child care is a major pain point for working parents generally.
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Child care is obviously a perk for employees, but it benefits companies as well.
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Her issues were health care, child care, and affordability of schools and other things.
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By definition, she doesn't have a spouse at home to help with child care.
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"We need child care workers, we need teachers, we need care assistants," Hegewisch said.
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Families must also deal with the soaring cost of college, housing and child care.
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We have spent years researching the parenting and child care needs of American families.
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Their efforts have helped make the child care shortage an issue politicians cannot avoid.
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Her plan would allow families to deduct child-care expenses from their taxable income.
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The campaign later suggested those workers could deduct child care costs from payroll taxes.
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The child care is a volunteer led effort located in the Iowa City area.
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Clinton's manifesto also promises to fight for paid family leave and affordable child care.
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Will there be child care or do you need to find or hire someone?
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But due to the lack of child care it's going to take me years.
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"An individual employer cannot solve their employees' child care needs by themselves," Matsui says.
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Maternity leave and child care also have wide support among the general U.S. population.
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Inadequate child care options make it difficult for many parents (especially women) to work.
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But Denmark's universal child-care provision also has a more ideological side to it.
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"Something about the internet," Ms Sharma, a 40-year-old child-care worker, recalls.
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It will also include an increase in child care funding — an Ivanka Trump priority.
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A new child-care benefit provided a fiscal boost; infrastructure spending could provide another.
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It has opened more public nurseries to clear long waiting lists for child care.
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Heavily regulated child care could drive providers out of business due to high costs.
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The big picture: Expect to see more 2020 candidates roll out child care proposals.
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Warren has outlined plans for universal child care, affordable housing and student debt cancellation.
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The measure would ease child-care burdens and help improve gender equality, she said.
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On issues like retirement security and child care, the candidates lined up, he said.
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We were forced to separate from our children and forced to use child care.
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The property will include 21 market-rate apartments, townhomes and a child care center.
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It's no secret that child-care costs are a massive expense for working parents.
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It's not that Hillary's child-care proposals aren't a step in the right direction.
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Gillibrand also called for a tax credit to help parents pay for child care.
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Other sectors affected by labor shortages are construction, education, child care and geriatric nursing.
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Paid family leave and affordable, consistent child care, for example, both boost women's wages.
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For now, child care eats up enough of her earnings that this isn't possible.
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Medical care, child care and education all cost significantly more than they used to.
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The origins of Donald Trump's proposal have nothing to do with quality child care.
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At first pass, the economic argument for subsidising child care is a bit iffy.
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Parents could always spend the extra money on child care if they so wished.
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She also said she would work to increase the pay of child care workers.
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Subsidizing child care might encourage more mothers to return to the work force faster.
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Letters Readers offer ideas, from reading programs to stable housing to quality child care.
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America needs home visiting programs and quality child care to support mothers and families.
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"His child care plan make a difference for working families," the Trump supporter adds.
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Officials' voted in June to let her expense child care costs to her campaign.
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That's the concept behind the Child CARE Act, which I recently introduced in Congress.
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Our limited public transportation options restrict access to jobs, child care, and health care.
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One solution could be beefing up child care subsidies or expanding universal pre-K.
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Unfortunately, for the families currently struggling with child-care costs, there's no easy fix.
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Regardless, the typical family spends 10 percent of their annual income on child care.
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Without child care on tour, it would be impossible for me to do both.
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Affordable child care "should not be the luxury of a fortunate few," she said.
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Heartland politics is about bridging rural/urban divide, farm policy & housing & health & child care.
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Can the child care provider smoke while on a break from supervising the children?
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And he will focus on making quality child care affordable and accessible for all.
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They can pay through the nose for their artisanal, trilingual, organic child care experience.
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High-quality child care and early education are also especially important for these children.
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This week, Trump unveiled a (very flawed, incomplete, but nonetheless real) child care proposal.
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Prices for health care, child care and real estate pose more of a problem.
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Women reporters will badger him for his favorite recipes and advice on child care.
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He reiterated a campaign pledge to improve access to child care and elderly care.
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In fact, research shows that low-quality child care harms children, especially young boys.
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These families are precisely the group that would most benefit from subsidized child care.
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Ordering schools closed causes huge child care issues for lots and lots of parents.
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It encourages retirement savings, college savings and child care spending through tax-free accounts.
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But closing schools and child care centers comes with its own set of problems.
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Child care is listed as an essential service in some orders, like New York's.
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The cost of child care has increased by 65 percent since the early 1980s.
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Larger companies like Shimizu provide subsidized child care, shorter work hours and parental leave.
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But some parents had more time to prepare for the demands of child care.
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But Biden did have some harsh words for the concept of paid child care.
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We welcome a discussion on the current Minnesota school and child care immunization requirements.
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That's because the bulk of child care the world over still falls to women.
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Infant care costs an average of $1,230 a month in a child-care center.
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Fathers who take leave are more involved in child care for years to come.
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Trump is planning to include child care tax breaks as part of his plan.
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Child-care imbalances also tank relationship happiness, especially in the early years of parenthood.
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That's why some babies with NAS get kicked out of other child care centers.
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Child care is the long-neglected backbone of our economic and public health infrastructure.
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The event offered free child care and had organizers speaking English, Spanish and Cantonese.
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Feminine chores are mainly indoor and done frequently: cooking, cleaning, laundry and child care.
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Instead, the No. 1 most-cited reason is the high cost of child care.
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It's both personal and professional and political for me to talk about child care.
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Mississippi has the cheapest child care at $4,822 a year, according to the report.
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Families' child care costs would drop about 17% to less than $6,000 a year.
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The administration's tax overhaul plan includes tax relief for child care and dependent expenses.
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People climbing the economic ladder need supports, including education, job training, and child care.
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She worked at McDonald's, but she lacked reliable child care, making the job impossible.
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What these students really need, Cottom believes, are public supports like affordable child care.
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The government will spend part of its increased revenue on child care and pensions.
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She pushed her husband to veto and she pushed for the child care stuff.
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I had known, of course, that child care was part of the F.D.R. package.
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And while other nations offer generous subsidies for child care, ours are woefully inadequate.
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One of the most important aspects of providing high-quality child care is stability.
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That's because, despite progress, women continue to do a disproportionate amount of child care.
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President-elect Donald J. Trump has advocated a tax deduction for child-care expenses.
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But finding reliable, affordable child care can be enough of a challenge at home.
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Perkins knew she wanted recommendations from friends to figure into choosing child care providers.
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However, others are less evenly split, such as child care and housekeeping (see chart).
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So Woman to Woman paid for her child care while she was receiving treatment.
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Dedicate your funding largesse to advancing national needs like universal, high-quality child care.
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The CCDBG ensures that states make subsidies available to families to support child care.
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Distrust of child care — remember the day care sex-abuse panic of the 1980s?
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In return, Howard's mother watches the kids, which saves the couple on child care.
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This is not the first time President Trump has allocated funds for child care.
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Better child care options and paid maternity leave go a long way to helping.
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Over the past generation, the costs of child care have jumped nearly 1,000 percent.
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The House at one point had talked about taking away the child care benefit.
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Kirsten Gillibrand and others support reducing major living costs, like child care and education.
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Without child care options, many mothers have no choice but to leave paying jobs.
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Some mothers who would like to work lack adequate child care to do so.
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Will the job guarantee offer free child care for mothers who want to work?
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Her mention of child care was short, but it was noteworthy that it was the first economic issue she chose to mention — a reminder that for many Americans, especially women, having affordable, reliable child care is the foundation of career and economic security.
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Sens. Patty Murray, Bob Casey, and Mazie Hirono re-introduced the Child Care For Working Families Act on Tuesday, a landmark legislation that would make high-quality child care more affordable and increase early education services for families across the U.S. Reps.
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Most child care funding from the federal government comes in the form of block grants and the child and dependent care tax credit, which allows parents to deduct $3,000 of child care costs for one child and $6,000 for two or more children.
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This harms working parents living in rural areas, those with nonstandard work schedules, and parents of infants and children with special needs who will face more challenges finding a child care provider even when they have access to a child care subsidy.
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Here's what Trump said he would do: "My plan will ... help reduce the cost of child care by allowing parents to fully deduct the average cost of child care spending from their taxes," Trump said in a speech in Michigan on Monday.
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In May, about two months before the twins died, the Tennessee Department of Human Services, which licenses child care facilities in the state, served the center with an injunction after DHS workers said that Salley was unlicensed to operate a child care center.
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The rule also requires the staff at all licensed, regulated or registered child care providers and all child care providers eligible to deliver CCDF services to have a comprehensive background check, unless they are related to all the children in their care.
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CCDBG is administered to states in formula block grants, which are used to subsidize child care for low-income working families (around 1.5 million children per month) and to support activities that improve the overall quality of child care for all children.
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Perceptions like these can mean moms end up doing more child care, whether or not they want to — in 2016, moms did an average of 14 hours a week of child care, compared with eight hours a week for dads, according to Pew.
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The toll of child care costs For the past year Mariana Gomez paid nearly $226,63 a month in child care expenses for her 26-year-old daughter, Julianna, and her 22-year-old son, Ben, in Washington DC -- way more than her mortgage.
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Nicole Frethem: I mean, child care was one of the big policy things I wanted to do more to invest in, especially in our family child care providers which in Minnesota are licensed by the county agencies I would oversee as a commissioner.
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For example, veterans who are primary caretakers of children need access to child care when they have health-care appointments at the VA. The VA is currently conducting a successful pilot program that makes child care available at some VA medical centers.
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The new spending bill makes good on an effort to improve the quality of child care for low-income working families that began in 2014, an important goal aimed at ensuring that dollars for child care are spent to improve child well-being.
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It's a rising trend: According to Willis Towers Watson's 22020 Best Practices in Health Care Survey, more than 1 in 4 employers currently offer child-care support services, backup day care and child-care subsidies, with 13% considering these benefits for 2021.
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A single parent with $220,239.6 in earnings, two children in school, and no child care costs (because the kids are in school) would've paid $225,440 more under Trump's plan (which included a child care deduction that the Big Six plan might not).
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Bobby Scott (D-VA) earlier this year that would expand federal subsidies for child care.
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Both Warren's plan and Murray and Scott's bill have been praised by child care experts.
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Elizabeth Warren were to become president and able to implement her universal child care plan?
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This has been determined by child-care professionals to be in the children's best interest.
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So why are parents shunted into market-based child care, with its explosive cost growth?
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Many families are putting up to 30 percent of their annual earnings toward child care.
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What does ACPS expect those families to do about child care with such little notice?
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She would still oppose sending out payments to families footing the bill for child care.
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In almost half of all states, child care costs more than the average rent payment.
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In an age of political correctness, he confesses that he feels emasculated by child care.
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Child care is expensive nationwide, costing families more than housing expenses in many big cities.
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This clearly shows that investing in child care is going to increase labor force participation.
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He spoke of child-care initiatives, and efforts to combat AIDS and the opioid crisis.
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Subsidised child care could encourage more work; subsidised health care more willingness to chase dreams.
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They provide jobs and job contacts, informal child-care services, and access to health care.
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In countries like Denmark and Sweden, the government covers much of the child care costs.
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Many working parents need child care during the day while kids are on summer vacation.
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I haven't been able to work because of endo, and child care costs are ridiculous.
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Child care around the country routinely costs single mothers more than half their total income.
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Child care subsidies can help with the expensive costs of day care and the like.
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In Brazil, it is usually women who are responsible for family planning and child care.
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An astounding 95 percent of child care workers are women, according to the EPI report.
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Trump has a proposal to let parents take a tax deduction for child care costs.
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The academy also advises health care personnel and child care providers get a flu shot.
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Another piece of the parenting puzzle we need to talk about is affordable child care.
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California law requires children to be vaccinated before they can enter school or child care.
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That's partly because, in most states, child care costs more than in-state college tuition.
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Most of the Grey's docs have had infants, with no mention of overnight child care.
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To achieve this, it would increase the amount of federal funding for child care centers.
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Graduate schools could offer more generous family leave policies and child care for graduate students.
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Scharfman is also exploring ways to offer his employees more affordable housing and child care.
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The rest go to child care, job training and other job-related services and supports.
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He commended Trump on Twitter last week for her efforts on child care tax reform.
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Hotels in Guatemala City, the capital, had entire floors for child care and notaries' offices.
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They are home care workers, child care workers, truck drivers, retail workers, light manufacturing workers.
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Its spunky protagonist, Mi-so, struggles to combine long, rigid work hours with child care.
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Johnson County prosecutors are requesting an enhanced sentence because Hatfield was a child care provider.
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The federal government would cover much of the cost of operating the child care options.
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The Hill has reached out to Warren's campaign for comment on the child care plan.
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Japan is investing to build more child care facilities so women can reenter the workforce.
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An interesting question we had is, 'can you find child care to meet your needs?
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The average Korean husband does far less child care or housework than his Western peer.
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Ivanka's influence and the specific child care proposal are both meant to address that gap.
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Over half of Americans live in neighborhoods classified as child-care deserts by the Center.
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Moreover, state policymakers should eliminate unnecessary regulations that drive up the cost of child care.
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The third employee said Mehri questioned her child care arrangements after she returned from leave.
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In Massachusetts, Clark served as general counsel for the state Office of Child Care Services.
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It includes increased spending on public universities and programs such as child care and welfare.
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From a free-market perspective, it's easy to guess why child care costs are skyrocketing.
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Pence responded by saying the Trump campaign is unveiling a child care proposal on Tuesday.
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He also outlined a plan to help some families offset the expense of child care.
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It includes funding for biomedical research, opioid treatment, public health, child care and early education.
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Women are sometimes working a second job in terms of child care and domestic duties.
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The children of these employees have worse behavior and inconsistent child care, the Times reported.
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She has backed a $12 minimum wage and more generous tax benefits for child care.
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President Trump campaigned on a plan for making child care more affordable for American families.
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Greater access to child care frees parents — primarily single mothers — to work and attend school.
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The cost of child care has increased nearly exponentially in recent decades, far outpacing inflation.
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Parents have lost wages, tried to work at home or scrambled to find child care.
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Federally provided child care in America was deemed not just pragmatically tricky but ideologically unsound.
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In the past, networks of relatives, especially grandmothers and aunts, often provided child care support.
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Few employers subsidize child care, and assistance is particularly rare for women on temporary contracts.
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Gillibrand, meanwhile, supports something Biden voted against in 1981 — expanding the child care tax credit.
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They worked together on biomedical research, child care, AIDS and civil rights for the disabled.
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What if there were affordable child care and more comprehensive sick and paid leave policies?
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Even short stays for nonviolent offenses can wreak havoc with people's jobs and child care.
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Most proposals are somewhat vague on this point, mentioning everything from child care to infrastructure.
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It wouldn't be tenable to eliminate a universal child care program because the economy improved.
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Cronan, 38, is a teacher at a Bright Horizons child care center in New York.
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Pavlioti needs state-financed child care, but does not qualify because her divorce is pending.
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"Our clients were losing jobs, missing medical appointments, having child care emergencies," Mr. Levy said.
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Like in the US, kindergarten in China is a mixture of child care and education.
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These are communities that have more than three children for every licensed child care slot.
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That last question might sound unusual, but this new child care center is just that.
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Vermont Governor Phil Scott ordered all child care centers closed, as did officials in Kentucky.
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Even so, the couples share more than child care (and a set of floor beams).
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Workers with unpredictable hours had a greater number of child care providers, the survey found.
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Others yearned to go back, but simply could not swing the cost of child care.
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They didn't make up for the rising cost of housing, health insurance, and child care.
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Any parent knows how difficult finding reliable child care can be, especially on short notice.
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Since she started promoting her book, her husband has taken the lead on child care.
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Elizabeth Warren, characteristically, has laid out a comprehensive, fully financed plan for universal child care.
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This is why a high-quality workforce and access to early child care are critical.
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Child-care costs jumped for the fifth straight year, according to a survey from Care.com.
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Many young people face unstable employment, student debt and rising housing and child care costs.
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And even those who can do so will struggle to combine work with child care.
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The Child Care for Working Families Act couldn't have come at a more urgent time.
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Why do plans cover everyone for public college but not child care and early learning?
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Child care workers are at an increased risk of developing depression, compared with other professions.
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Tim and I, slowly getting used to being freed from child care, did childish things.
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Ensuring that government-funded child care subsidy programs also offer high-quality care is imperative.
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A majority of child care workers are women, and 40 percent are women of color.
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In much of the developed world, child care is a matter for the public sector.
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Believing this, my broke, single mom eagerly accepted his offer to provide free child care.
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Universal basic income, giving families up to $2,000 a month to spend on child care.
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It also intends to allocate 12,000 square feet to become a public child care center.
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Plus, Warren calls for raising the wages of child care workers and expanding their ranks.
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Here's how to get right with the IRS and nab that child care tax credit.
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Her mother, Patricia, and her family child care provider Debra, loved, educated, and raised Grace.
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From preparing kids for kindergarten to higher graduation rates, quality child care can transform lives.
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Baby friendliness included items such as parental leave policies and child care centers per capita.
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Meanwhile, mothers with steady child care are twice as likely to stay in their jobs.
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It is difficult to square President Trump's child-care plan with his other budget priorities.
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They work in construction, painting, driving, child care, cleaning, cooking, gardening and many other occupations.
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It requires the placement of alien minors at non-secure, state-licensed child-care facilities.
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There is not currently a grand scale model in the US for universal child care.
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It also heavily subsidizes child care for military service members both on and off base.
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She allegedly operated an unlicensed child care center in Wyoming, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati.
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Undocumented immigrants are overrepresented in low-skilled jobs such as farming, construction and child care.
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She wrote about child care and parental leave, for instance, and adults with intellectual disabilities.
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She received vouchers to help pay for child care and a food basket at Thanksgiving.
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Many of the Democratic presidential candidates also support initiatives to make child care more affordable.
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They're calling for aid that helps middle- and lower-income parents afford quality child care.
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Let's start with paid parental leave and high-quality, affordable child care as national priorities.
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Measures to promote child care were included to show the middle class could benefit too.
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In America today, "getting decent child care is like winning the lottery," Warren told Vox.
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As vice president, he supported President Obama's proposal to triple the child care tax credit.
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Liberals have proposed free public programs for children under 5 or capping child care expenses.
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Only six states have laws specifically allowing campaign money to be used for child care.
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With public money involved, the state says child care should be considered a personal expense.
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Children impose heavy costs in terms of food, housing, child care, clothing, and medical bills.
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It's quite possible for [kids in] child care to learn racial thinking from other children.
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For students, the easiest and most affordable option is an on-campus child care center.
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Republicans have primarily focused on expanding child care access through tax credits, not additional spending.
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Then there are the problems with child care agencies suffering from insufficient funding and standards.
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Elizabeth Warren brought forth her own struggles with insufficient child care as a working mother.
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I would go along [to shows] and it was great because you had child care.
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I would say we've been through phases of what it means to do child care.
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More than 40% of family home child care businesses nationally report that they couldn't make it two weeks without revenue from having children in care," she said, adding that MyVillage was created to help fix "America's deeply broken child care market, which doesn't work well for educators, who earn on average $11.50 an hour, or for working parents, who pay more than public university tuition for child care in a majority of states.
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" Though his plan around child care is vague in his proposal, the Indiana mayor says he would also make childcare free for families in need, as a "lack of access to high-quality, affordable child care prevents women from joining or remaining in the workforce.
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Last month she petitioned the FEC asking for permission to use campaign funds to pay for child care, citing two cases from 1995 and 2008 where male candidates asked to use campaign funds to pay for certain child care expenses in more limited circumstances.
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How could you make men share the responsibility of child care in the present social conditions where his job in the office is, to him, a mere "performance" and where he cannot relate to the role of child care except as again a "performance"?
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The bipartisan bill would provide child care to veterans receiving health services at the VA. The bill passed while I was on parental leave earlier this year, and as a new dad, I know how important it is to have access to child care.
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Additionally, the California Family School Partnership Act entitles workers at employers with 25 or more employees to up to 63 hours of job-protected, unpaid leave per year in a child care emergency, including the closure or unavailability of a school or child care provider.
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The White House aims to build up the supply of providers by giving funding to a wide range of child care facilities, including faith-based and family child care providers, as well as offering support in the form of small business and entrepreneurship opportunities.
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And it comes at a time when other efforts to make child care more affordable are gaining steam in Congress and in cities around the country, and when state and local candidates raising young kids are making child care an issue on the campaign trail.
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The costs of child care, housing, higher education and health care have all far outpaced inflation.
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Both women came under fire for the way they hired and paid their child care helpers.
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In December, she called members of Congress about legislation aimed at making child care more affordable.
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Last year, legislators actually added $5.8 billion to the Child Care and Development Block Grant budget.
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She explained that she'd placed Sarah, 3, and Jacob, 2, in a new child care center.
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Don't you think we've waited long enough for quality affordable child care and paid family leave?
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Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has made universal child care part of her campaign platform for 2020.
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This new plan would give all Americans access to free child care, regardless of their income.
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For young mothers like her, the ability to seek office hinges on access to child care.
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In most states, child care for just one child costs more than in-state college tuition.
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Child care costs are not only sky-high, they're also rising twice as fast as inflation.
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One potential limitation is the supply of high-quality child care, which is already very scarce.
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When parents can't rely on affordable, high-quality child care for their children, everything becomes precarious.
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Most states earn a D or failing grade for their child care health and safety standards.
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But it is not a simple matter of offering financial incentives or providing more child care.
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Cash-strapped millennials who are starting families have a new cost on the horizon: child care.
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In fact, he wants to spend more on infrastructure, the army, veterans, education and child care.
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As a divorced mother of two, I would have preferred an exception for emergency child care.
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Can families trust that child care providers receiving these subsidies offer a safe environment for children?
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There is good reason child care is so expensive — it's a very involved, labor-driven industry.
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But families earning less than $1,500 per month spend around half of it on child care.
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Evidence from several countries suggests one effective way to do this is to outsource child care.
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Countries which spend more on early childhood education and child-care support have more working women.
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Of all the strains low-income families feel come summertime, the biggest is from child care.
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Students will not be marked absent if parents choose to arrange their own child care services.
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Either way, it's clear that you can't get high-quality child care without paying for it.
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That influence had limits: Trump has not made child care the center of his legislative agenda.
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Often, the high cost of child care makes the decision to leave work a forced one.
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A mom with a job could write checks for child care and keep her earnings, too.
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His government has announced measures to improve child care and increase support for single-parent families.
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They often have little time to cook at home and are unburdened by child-care duties.
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His studies have found phthalates to be common in child care practices in the United States.
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The Republican presidential candidate unveiled Tuesday parts of his plan to make child care more affordable.
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PEOPLE's efforts to reach child care center employees or its owner, Jennifer Salley, have been unsuccessful.
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Both women came under fire for the way they hired and paid their child-care helpers.
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The external barriers included discrimination, sexual harassment, and lack of paid leave and affordable child care.
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Do they place their children in unregulated child care settings, potentially placing their safety at risk?
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Low wage jobs do not allow employees flexibility to manage child care issues that may arise.
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"Traditionally the focus has been on communicable (infectious) disease and maternal and child care," says Roberts.
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The typical family's child-care costs would decline by 17 percent to less than $6,000 annually.
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But having reliable child care at your office makes being a working parent a lot easier.
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Statistically speaking, they're more likely to have younger children and, thus, be worried about child care.
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She picked up Pascal in the handsome yet fading villa that is his child care center.
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HuffPost and The Boston Globe first reported on Warren's plans to release a child care proposal.
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Congress could play a role by passing outcome-focused legislation to address the child care crisis.
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Additionally, families that earn less than twice the poverty line would pay nothing for child care.
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Recipients would also not be allowed to deduct medical and child-care costs from their incomes.
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At that time, however, the economy was booming and some states expanded their child care assistance.
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Finland subsidizes child care, and Ainamo-McDonald pays just $372 a month for private day care.
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Child care is the biggest household expense for many families, more than rent, food and transportation.
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Groups representing child care and young children certainly have no shortage of legislation to opine on.
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The Mainichi did not report the names of the employees nor the child care worker's husband.
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In states that lack infant and child care, the cost of childcare has a massive impact.
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The other would eliminate that exemption for all vaccines required for school or child care entry.
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Public schools, even in poor states, generally pay better than nonprofit and private child care centers.
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Yet child care is generally unaffordable and paid leave is not available to most U.S. parents.
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In many wealthy countries, child care and preschool are considered a mainstay of the educational system.
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If so, how will the child care provider ensure that the children do not access it?
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In that speech, Trump proposed increasing the tax benefits associated with child care, among other things.
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Washington, D.C., ranks as one of the most expensive places in the country for child care.
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Trump would also expand the child care tax credit and create a new $500 caregiver credit.
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Koon worked at ABC Kidz Child Care in Elyria, about a half-hour west of Cleveland.
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Child care must be more than babysitting if we hope to promote social mobility across generations.
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Child care contracts now demand that nannies hide phones, tablets, computers and TVs from their charges.
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Should I give up on my feminist dreams of sharing the child care and household duties?
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CS: Your dream of "sharing the child care and household duties" is not a minor wish.
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Mike Bloomberg's early-education plan supported higher-quality and lower-cost child care and universal preschool.
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They must be held in an accredited child care facility or be released to a sponsor.
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In addition, women's reasons for freelancing are often related to child care or elder care responsibilities.
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He's also added a new tax benefit: a deduction for child care costs borne by families.
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And here I was again in my all-too-familiar routine of scrambling for child care.
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So she decided to expand, and obtained her license to run a group child care service.
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She would need money for the extra day of child care and for a hotel, too.
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Subsidized child care helps shrink the pay gap by enabling women to spend more time working.
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They benefit when child care is affordable and accessible, and they lose out when it's not.
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Warren is framing child care as a collective good, like public schools or roads and bridges.
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IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE: Have men work from home for a day with children and no child care.
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You might also be able to set aside up to $5,000 pretax for child care expenses.
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Policies like paid leave, subsidized child care and part-time work options are helpful to mothers.
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Start with universal child care and education and investment in education from zero on through college.
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Instead, American families worry about the soaring costs of college tuition, health insurance, and child care.
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Ms. Headley, 23, had gone to the benefits center to inquire about receiving child care vouchers.
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Wells Fargo is reimbursing hourly employees for up to $100 per day in child-care costs.
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"I read all the child-care books," said Ms. Sentilles, a professor in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
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It is also adding a $20,000 stipend for new parents to spend on child care costs.
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This week, Winnie launched a portal for parents to find emergency child care with immediate openings.
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Wages have stagnated, while the cost of college, homes, health care and child care have climbed.
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Employment, child care, unexpected emergencies and other life events have to be oriented around the clinic.
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Recipients can use the funds as they see fit (child care, workspaces, new equipment, research, travel).
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Most parents can't afford child care, which in many states costs as much as college tuition.
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"The school closure will affect those who rely on out-of-home child care," said Bastawrous.
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But so are hardships that come from a lack of child care or transportation, he said.
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For instance, if schools close, child care could become a problem for some of his employees.
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Working parents are also leaning on tips from colleagues to make homeschooling and child care work.
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Child care deserts are harming our children today and limiting America's potential for future economic growth.
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Among the top unpaid contributions to society are child care, cooking and driving young ones around.
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The company's headquarters in Islandia, on Long Island, included a child-care center and other amenities.
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So is access to child care, to lower barriers to women's participation in the work force.
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Child care is a challenge for a lot of parents these days, but particularly for Leo.
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The couple is pushing for legislation that would make lying on child care applications a crime.
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Almost a century ago hundreds of thousands of working women had access to affordable child care.
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Some families in Massachusetts just saw their child care costs shoot up by 150% almost overnight.
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Keep tabs on the cost of child care, which you'll need to work into your budget.
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And when surveyed as to why, the No. 1 answer is the expense of child care.
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One in 3 families also said child-care costs had played a part in family planning.
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Parents are spending bucket loads of money on child care, and it's not getting any cheaper.
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Meanwhile, Washington, D.C. and Mississippi top the lists of the least affordable jurisdictions for child care.
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One of the biggest costs is child care, which can vary considerably depending on your location.
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EST: President Trump spoke at the White House Summit on Child Care and Paid Family Leave.
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A substantial minority favors reducing income differences and helping families pay for child care and college.
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If I had done that, yes, we could have paid a little less for child care.
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Brad and I knew our high child care costs were temporary, which made them more palatable.
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I lost three days of wages, and had to arrange child care for all of them.
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Will single mothers use their cash to pay for child care so they can attend college?
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Among parents paying for child care for the under-6 crowd, expenses may be significantly higher.
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Several women interviewed said their parents retired early or moved closer to help with child care.
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Quality child care is hard to find and even harder if you're working poor or poor.
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Jerry Brown signed a $183 billion budget — what it means for schools, marijuana and child care.
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Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar reiterated their commitments to developing universal child care to address this.
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Child care costs can be prohibitive to many start-up founders whose businesses are yet unfunded.
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Absolutely. Provide more money for child care to take the burden off of dual-income families?
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And a 2018 report found parents paid about $3,000 per child on summer child care alone.
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State-financed child care became means-tested and is hard to get for women seeking work.
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The federal government defines "affordable" child care as no more than 7% of a family's income.
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Democrats are offering an alternative to the child care plan being pushed by the Trump administration.
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Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.) pushed Trump during the meeting about providing a benefit for child care.
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Mr. Trump is not the first Republican president to demonstrate an interest in child-care policy.
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Would this high estimate of $2.75 trillion over 20143 years cover Warren's universal child care plan?
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And that doesn't include the 2.7 million unlisted and unpaid child care providers in the country.
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But despite this resilience, home-based child care providers struggle to keep up with their expenses.
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Ramping up a new infrastructure of child care centers with highly paid workers wouldn't happen overnight.
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And guards are scrambling to figure out how to pay for child care, rent and medications.
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Salvation Army: Ensures people have access to food, shelter and child care through its nationwide network.
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Babies often aren't sleeping through the night by then, and infant child care is most expensive.
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The company is adding the $20,000 stipend because child care costs were a concern, he said.
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Some parents are actually paying so much for child care that "they're becoming homeless," Kruckel said.
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In general, tax credits can't address all the problems with child care in America, Kruckel said.
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"He believes we have to make child care affordable for every family," the spokesperson said. Gov.
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That means a family of four would get free child care unless their income exceeds $20113,22011.
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No family will have to pay more than 217 percent of their income on child care.
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That means a family of four would get free child care unless their income exceeds $51,500.
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No family will have to pay more than 7 percent of their income on child care.
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With her Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act, the Massachusetts senator is proposing the creation of a federal program that would rely on partnerships with local establishments to build a network of child care providers — including locally-licensed centers, preschools, and in-home care options.
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Sara Mauskopf, co-founder and CEO of Winnie, said large child-care centers that have more than 50 children in their programs offer less flexibility for parents with differing schedules when compared to in-house, licensed child-care providers who can offer flexible scheduling at lower costs.
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The Family and Childcare Trust, a charity, says that in Britain, where out-of-pocket child-care costs are the highest in the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries, parents will spend an average of £133 ($172) per child, per week on child care this summer.
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In documents obtained by PEOPLE, Sharon's Day Care LLC was shut down by Pennsylvania's Department of Human Services for violations of seven state child care center regulations in the categories of staff to child ratio, measured child care space, child supervision, infant sleep position and record maintaining.
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Morgan Judy, a 23-year-old instructor at Linton-Stockton High School in Bloomfield, was charged on Friday with two counts: child seduction by a child care worker and child seduction by a child care worker engaging in fondling or touching a child 16-17 years old.
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Child care experts, like Michelle McCready, the deputy executive director of Child Care Aware of America, say that administrative and filing violations at facilities are not uncommon, but that a safety problem that is reoccurring is cause for concern and the notification of parents and authorities.
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The Child Care for Working Families Act proposes to make these non-choices a predicament of the past by increasing the number of children eligible for child care subsidies, and making high quality preschool accessible to all low- and moderate-income 3 and 4 year olds.
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