White House And Ivanka Trump Propose New Spending On Child Care

[Eugene]

Friday in LBN: Trump Budget to Include $100M for Ivanka's Women's Fund

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Source: NPR

Exclusive: White House And Ivanka Trump Propose New Spending On Child Care

March 10, 2019 9:41 AM ET
TAMARA KEITH

In the midst of a presidential budget proposal destined to generate controversy for its expected drastic spending cuts, White House senior adviser and first daughter Ivanka Trump wants to have a conversation about increasing the availability and affordability of child care.

NPR has learned that the 2020 White House budget set to be released Monday will call for increased spending on child care and propose an initiative to address shortages.

Presidential budgets are policy statements, frequently ignored by Congress, and this one is no different (It has already been declared a "nonstarter" by Democrats.) So in a way, this is Ivanka Trump and the White House signaling that they want in on a debate already underway in the business world and in politics about this "ever growing challenge."

"You have care providers who are working at below poverty wages, you have parents who can't afford the care and you don't have a robust ecosystem of facilities because it's a low-margin business with high liability," said Ivanka Trump on the sidelines of a discussion she recently led at the White House with about more than a dozen people who specialize in child care. "So, it's like just a fundamentally flawed system."

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One-time investment

The centerpiece is a proposed one-time investment of $1 billion to increase the supply of child care to underserved populations. ...

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Read more: https://www.npr.org/2019/03/10/701870547/exclusive-white-house-and-ivanka-trump-propose-new-spending-on-child-care

[Deb]

1. After reading that, I feel we need to protect our children from her.

Fewer regulations to make care more affordable? Endangering children for money... GOP priorities