If the basic test of a child care proposal is whether it makes quality care more affordable for the majority of America’s struggling families and pays providers what they’re worth, Trump’s plan fails.
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Clinton, by contrast, “does not have a plan to provide relief to most Americans faced with high child care costs” and “prefers institutional child care that does not meet the needs of workers in rural areas or who have schedules that require working on a night shift or on call”, it contended.
There’s also a problem of funding.Trump plans to pay for his six week maternity leave plan by ending unemployment fraud.Now, if that sounds like a Republican gimmick, that’s because it is a Republican gimmick.
Ivanka Trump devoted a portion of her Republican National Convention speech to the topic, promising policies to help women and Trump said last month that child care would be a part of his economic plan.
Ivanka Trump called the proposals “long overdue” changes for an “inaffordable, inaccessible child care system that we now have in place that’s failing American families”.
Third, under Mr. Trump’s tax deduction, stay-at-home parents would also benefit from the deduction.
USA multinational corporations have $2.4 trillion in profits offshore on which they owe $700 billion in US taxes if taxed at the 35% rate, less foreign taxes paid.
“Given the late-breaking nature of this policy proposal it’s hard not to feel like it’s a pretty naked attempt to speak to women voters less than 60 days before the election”, said Vivien Labaton of Make It Work Action, which pushes for increased child care access.
While popular imagination may still talk about the “two-parent household”, the reality is that families look a lot different now.
The timing and location of the announcement are no coincidence. Former assistant secretary for planning, evaluation and policy development at the U.S. Department of Education. And Trump has been trying to soften his image among college-educated women who have been reluctant to support a candidate who has made many derogatory remarks toward women. Lower-income earners would receive child-care spending rebates through expanding the existing Earned Income Tax Credit, the campaign said. The accounts would allow tax-deductible contributions and tax-free appreciation, according to the campaign. This is a positive, market-based approach, which would encourage continued innovation and the efficient use of resources, and an important contrast to the Progressives’ steady push to simply have government become both the payer and provider of all such services.
As TIME reports, Trump’s plan involves child-care tax credits, paid maternity leave, and subsidies for parents who choose to stay at home to care for their children.
She denied complaints the plan isn’t conservative, telling the show that it’s “an American plan, a family plan”. Parental leave policy that focuses only on moms is bad for children, for dads and for women. He has previously touted similar programs at his hotels and golf clubs – but The Associated Press has reported that those options are offered to guests and club members, not employees.
“When established for a minor, funds from a DCSA can be applied to traditional child care, after-school enrichment programs and school tuition-contributing to school choice”. Meanwhile, if you are a middle-class family making $37,000 and child care costs take up a much larger chunk of your monthly income, you will save less than 15 percent.
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Since announcing the plan in May, Clinton has offered few details, including how it would be funded beyond raising taxes on wealthy Americans. “The lack of seriousness of this proposal is no surprise given his history of disrespecting women in the workplace and the fact there’s no evidence he ever provided paid family leave or childcare to his own employees”, Clinton aide Maya Harris said.
