Ivanka Trump, daughter of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, fully supports her father’s child care plan.
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“After spending his entire career – and this entire campaign – demeaning women and dismissing the need to support working families”, said Ms Maya Harris, Mrs Clinton’s senior policy adviser, “Donald Trump released a regressive and insufficient “maternity leave” policy that is out of touch, half-baked and ignores the way Americans live and work today”.
“Those in leadership must put themselves in the shoes of the laid-off factory worker, the family anxious about security or the mom struggling to afford child care”, Trump said. She also is “guaranteeing” up to 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave.
“Speaking Tuesday evening in the Philadelphia suburbs – a voting area vital to Trump’s chances this November – alongside his daughter Ivanka, Trump outlined a policy that the Hillary Clinton’s campaign said was out of the “‘Mad Men’ era” and “completely unserious”.
Clinton intends to do this by “increasing the federal government’s investment in child care subsidies and providing tax relief for the cost of childcare to working families”, her proposal states.
Trump’s proposed changes would alter unemployment insurance already offered by employers to accommodate maternity leave – and guarantee that a mother on leave after having a child would get a paycheck for six weeks. “It’s very hard to pay for child care”.
Hillary Clinton backed 12-week paid family leave in 2015, early in her presidential campaign.
The Trump campaign did not respond to requests for comment about whether Ivanka Trump mischaracterized the Trump Organization’s parental leave policy.
The tax benefit would be available only to families earning less than $500,000 and individuals learning less than $250,000. The accounts would allow tax-deductible contributions and tax-free appreciation and could be used to pay for child care, after-school programs and school tuition.
The real estate mogul also called for the creation of “Dependent Care Savings Accounts” that would allow families to set aside money to look after children or elderly parents. In fact, Maya Harris, Clinton’s senior adviser for policy, said that by focusing exclusively on leave policies that benefit women, Trump may actually be hurting their cause, contributing to the attrition of women from the workplace after childbirth and the gender pay gap. For them, Trump would provide up to $1,200 a year in tax rebates through the existing earned-income tax credit.
Trump proposed the child care initiative weeks ago but now has broadened the plan after criticism that his first proposal failed to address the needs of women and families who make little money.
Trump’s plan would benefit both parents who work and stay at home.
Yesterday the republican candidate unveiled plans to expand child care benefits for parents in an effort to win over female voters. “Maternity leave” isn’t just antiquated language.
Ivanka Trump urged her father, Donald Trump, to make some MAJOR changes to the current maternity leave policy in the US – and he listened!
“I think it’s about time“, said Anne Sweeny, a retired Aston resident, when asked about her a GOP nominee proposing paid maternity leave.
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The billionaire real-estate developer’s pitch to working parents comes as the race has tightened in recent weeks, particularly in so-called Rust Belt states including Pennsylvania and OH where Trump has sought to focus on economic malaise.
