Help me remember? Please?

Did Kerry ever sell his healthcare plan and other pro worker policies as a way to keep families strong? In the sense that helping workers means they get to spend more time with their families, and thereby strengthening them? Has anyone tried selling our policies this way?

There's a lot on johnkerry.com from the campaign.

The Kerry-Edwards Plan To Honor Work And Family
Plan Will Offer $800 in Additional Tax Cuts for Child Care and Quality Afterschool Programs for 3.5 Million Children
With more parents working longer hours and fewer parents at home full-time than ever before, millions of families need high-quality child care and afterschool programs. But today, good child care costs more than a public university. Demand for afterschool far outstrips supply, and even when programs are available, they often close before the end of the workday or add complicated transportation requirements to already overstretched parents. John Kerry and John Edwards will offer a new plan to make it easier for parents to balance work and family. Their plan would increase the child care tax credit, make it partially refundable to help moderate-income families, and help stay-at-home parents with infants. The Kerry-Edwards plan will also expand afterschool programs to serve 3.5 million children and to keep schools open until 6 pm each night, with good transportation options for hard-working families.


The Strains On Working Parents
Families Have Less Income. A two-parent family making $68,000 now spends three-quarters of their disposable income on health insurance, mortgage, cars, and taxes, up from about half their income three decades ago.

Families Have Less Time. Since 1977, the number of hours worked by couples has increased on average 12 hours a week. That is 12 hours per week less to spend with children.


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http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/economy/workfam.html