{"id":3155,"date":"2020-07-31T12:46:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T12:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3155"},"modified":"2020-07-31T12:46:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T12:46:14","slug":"child-care-is-broken-biden-has-a-plan-to-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3155","title":{"rendered":"Child care is broken. Biden has a plan to fix it."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Biden is making relief for child care centers part of his larger caregiving plan, which he unveiled on Tuesday in New Castle, Delaware. \u201cAs a first step, Biden will immediately provide states, tribal, and local governments with the fiscal relief they need to keep workers employed and keep vital public services running, including direct care and child care services,\u201d states the\u00a0campaign document<\/a>\u00a0outlining the plan. (The campaign did not provide specifics on the among of relief the candidate would make available if elected.)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u00a0But the former vice president also promises to go beyond the immediate crisis and invest in child care for the future.\u00a0His plan would provide<\/a>\u00a0free preschool to all 3- and 4-year-olds in the country. And for kids under the age of 3, the plan would create a system of tax credits and subsidies so that families earning less than 1.5 times the median income in their state would pay no more than 7 percent of their income for child care, with \u201cthe most-hard pressed working families\u201d paying nothing.
The plan also includes tax credits to encourage employers to construct onsite child care facilities, something\u00a0companies did during World War II<\/a>\u00a0that\u2019s become harder to imagine today, as families (most often mothers) are expected to handle child care on their own.”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/7\/24\/21334114\/biden-child-care-plan-explained<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Biden is making relief for child care centers part of his larger caregiving plan, which he unveiled on Tuesday in New Castle, Delaware. \u201cAs a first step, Biden will immediately provide states, tribal, and local governments with the fiscal relief they need to keep workers employed and keep vital public services running, including direct care and child care services,\u201d states the campaign document outlining the plan. (The campaign did not provide specifics on the among of relief the candidate would make available if elected.) <\/p>\n

But the former vice president also promises to go beyond the immediate crisis and invest in child care for the future. His plan would provide free preschool to all 3- and 4-year-olds in the country. And for kids under the age of 3, the plan would create a system of tax credits and subsidies so that families earning less than 1.5 times the median income in their state would pay no more than 7 percent of their income for child care, with \u201cthe most-hard pressed working families\u201d paying nothing.<\/p>\n

The plan also includes tax credits to encourage employers to construct onsite child care facilities, something companies did during World War II that\u2019s become harder to imagine today, as families (most often mothers) are expected to handle child care on their own.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[164,198,167,780,411,150],"class_list":["post-3155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-child-care","tag-elections","tag-government","tag-joe-biden","tag-policy","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3156,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions\/3156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}