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Related: About this forumIvanka Trump's Childcare Plan is Basically Useless, If You Can Believe It
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Ivanka Trump's Childcare Plan is Basically Useless, If You Can Believe It
Esther Wang
Yesterday 1:48pm Filed to: IVANKA TRUMP
Ivanka Trump has unveiled a new proposal to tackle our countrys abysmal lack of good, affordable childcare. True to form, its awful.
Heres what her plan, which was included as part of her fathers budget for 2020, proposes, according to NPR:
A one-time infusion of $1 billionor less than the cost of two stealth bombersis laughably inadequate. It looks like window dressing, Sonya Michel, professor emerita at the University of Maryland who has written extensively about childcare in the United States, told Jezebel. There are a lot of problems with it. One, it wont do anything to reduce childcare costs, Michel added, which, along with the relative scarcity of childcare providers, is one of the main obstacles for parents seeking childcare options.
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the average cost for full-time childcare can range anywhere from $4,000 to $22,600 per yearfar out of reach for most American families. A serious proposalsay, Elizabeth Warrens actual plan to provide parents with affordable (and depending on your income, free) childcare by taxing the wealthiest Americansmust tackle the rising costs of childcare, at a time when wages are stagnant. (Warrens proposal, in contrast to Ivankas, would cost about $70 billion per year.)
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Esther Wang
Yesterday 1:48pm Filed to: IVANKA TRUMP
Ivanka Trump has unveiled a new proposal to tackle our countrys abysmal lack of good, affordable childcare. True to form, its awful.
Heres what her plan, which was included as part of her fathers budget for 2020, proposes, according to NPR:
The centerpiece is a proposed one-time investment of $1 billion to increase the supply of child care to underserved populations. States would apply for funding and could use it to encourage employers large and small to invest in child care or to support child care providers that operate during nontraditional work hours or that cater to parents who are enrolled in school.
A one-time infusion of $1 billionor less than the cost of two stealth bombersis laughably inadequate. It looks like window dressing, Sonya Michel, professor emerita at the University of Maryland who has written extensively about childcare in the United States, told Jezebel. There are a lot of problems with it. One, it wont do anything to reduce childcare costs, Michel added, which, along with the relative scarcity of childcare providers, is one of the main obstacles for parents seeking childcare options.
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the average cost for full-time childcare can range anywhere from $4,000 to $22,600 per yearfar out of reach for most American families. A serious proposalsay, Elizabeth Warrens actual plan to provide parents with affordable (and depending on your income, free) childcare by taxing the wealthiest Americansmust tackle the rising costs of childcare, at a time when wages are stagnant. (Warrens proposal, in contrast to Ivankas, would cost about $70 billion per year.)
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Read more: https://theslot.jezebel.com/ivanka-trumps-childcare-plan-is-basically-useless-if-y-1833203648
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Ivanka Trump's Childcare Plan is Basically Useless, If You Can Believe It (Original Post)
Eugene
Mar 2019
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niyad
(113,614 posts)1. well, to be fair--ivanka is totally useless.
gibraltar72
(7,513 posts)2. I for one am shocked!
NRaleighLiberal
(60,026 posts)3. #BeUseless.