Sentences with phrase «middle class child care»

ALBANY - Governor Andrew Cuomo Thursday unveiled a new Enhanced Middle Class Child Care Tax Credit that he says will help more than 200,000 middle class families make their child care more affordable.

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Instead, Betty Friedan and a loose coalition of professional feminists and child - care advocates proffer Smithies and other middle - class women a strategic bargain.

Yeah, fasting and praying so that health care can be denied sick children, so that taxes can be lowered on the rich and raised on struggling middle - class families... praying that education loan programs be gutted and that social services for people in need get eliminated.

I think it is important to point out that this isn't just an issue for middle class families who care deeply about their child's diet and are able to provide abundant healthy food choices but school menus have great impact on many, many poor children who, through no fault of their own and often with no agency to change the situation, end up being pawns in the lunch tray wars.

(or a class of «behavior challenged» Middle Schoolers who could care less about taking a test) Sad that this is what education has come to in an effort to make sure that no child is «left behind»... This is the underlying issue right here ~ too much emphasis on penciling in the correct letter circle and not enough student driven cirriculum.

Today, President Obama outlined his plan to make affordable, quality child care available to every working and middle - class family with young children.

The article takes the focus off the prosperous women whose child - care situations raised anxious questions when they were being considered by President Clinton for appointment as U.S. attorney general and instead examines a group it sees as the largest group of mothers frustrated in seeking good day care: middle - class working mothers in urban areas where nearly all the available caregivers are undocmented foreign workers.

Now, her plan for the city creates decent - paying jobs by supporting small business and tech companies in neighborhoods that are often ignored; expands pre-K and child care; and builds 80,000 units of good middle class housing.

Other initiatives being rolled out by the governor include a plan for free middle class tuition at SUNY and CUNY colleges, revamping the JFK airport and increasing the state's child care tax credit.

There is also sustained support for expanding the middle - class child care tax credit and providing free tuition to SUNY and CUNY institutions to families that earn less than $ 125,000.

The Democratic priorities in the SOTU include taxing the wealthy and big banks to help pay for education and child care for members of the middle class.

The Working Families Child Care Tax Credit would establish a new, refundable credit of $ 1,000 for working and middle class families.

The major policy announcement on free school meals was the obvious move in this direction — as well as being a sop to middle class voters who lost out after cuts to child benefit — but Nick Clegg's speech is full of references to policies which help in day - to - day life: the pupil premium, flexible parental leave, free childcare, a cap on social care costs.

After a day of partisan bickering over whether the Republicans» sweeping tax plan would truly help the middle class, a key House panel approved late changes, restoring the tax exemption for employees receiving child care benefits from their companies, but also putting new requirements on a tax credit used by working people of modest means.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to increase a child care tax credit for middle - class parents.

The people of MINESOTA tried giving the republicans a break and Voted in THE GOP and now their collective bargaining rights for law enforcement and teacher and child education is in jeopardy - the Gop is for the rich and does nt care at all for the middle class but that is my opinion and I COULD BE WRONG but I doubt it»

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Free state college tuition for middle - class students, an expanded child care tax credit and $ 1 billion in new spending on public schools are among the highlights of a state budget proposal unveiled Tuesday by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

He said he will seek to expand a child care tax credit for the middle class and create an aftercare program that will begin with 22,000 new slots.

It was affixed to those achievement - obsessed upper - middle class parents who cared so much about their children's comfortable excellence that they did everything they could to ensure it — like the kids» homework, mainly.

Here, she's Marlo, a stressed - out middle - class mother of two, whose husband, though faithful and caring, is always at work, leaving the bulk of the child - rearing to her.

Middle - class parents received $ 3 billion in tax credits through the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit provision.

The Harvard study is the first examination of child - care availability in middle class and low - income neighborhoods in Massachusetts, particularly those with high concentrations of welfare recipients and single mothers.

How to Raise More Grateful Children (Wall Street Journal) «In some communities, specifically among the white middle and upper - middle class, there's good reason to believe that kids are less grateful than in the past,» says psychologist Richard Weissbourd, faculty director of the Making Caring Common initiative at Harvard's Graduate School of Education.

Poor children are stuck in shoddy day care, while «typical middle class parents raise their children differently,» providing them their own «head start.»

Either this discordant plan is a front for public school expansionism, bent on adding another grade or two to its current thirteen, and adding the staff (and dues - paying union members) that would accompany such growth, or it's a cynical calculation: only by appealing to the middle - class desire for taxpayers to underwrite the routine child - care needs of working parents will any movement occur on the pre-K front, and the heck with the truly disadvantaged youngsters who need more than that strategy will yield.

I think the most plausible explanation is the middle - class families are generally able on their own to provide adequate parenting or child care services.

What is worrisome is not that we have all learned to think in English, but that our education devalues our culture, that we are not taught to write Igbo and that middle - class parents don't much care that their children do not speak Igbo.

In most major cities, even middle - class families are eligible for subsidy, explains Martha Friendly, founder and executive director of the Child Care Resource and Research Unit (CRRU), a Toronto - based think tank.

As the fourth of six children growing up in an upper - middle - class London family, Bowlby, born in 1907, and his siblings were cared for by nurses on the top floor of the family's spacious home.

The Center for American Progress proposes a High - Quality Child Care Tax Credit available to help low - income and middle - class families afford child Child Care Tax Credit available to help low - income and middle - class families afford child cCare Tax Credit available to help low - income and middle - class families afford child child carecare.

The bill — Helping our Middle - Income Earners (HOME) Act --» recognizes that millions of middle class homeowners are struggling to keep up with rising household expenses like child care, college tuition, health care, mortgage and community assessments,» EshooMiddle - Income Earners (HOME) Act --» recognizes that millions of middle class homeowners are struggling to keep up with rising household expenses like child care, college tuition, health care, mortgage and community assessments,» Eshoomiddle class homeowners are struggling to keep up with rising household expenses like child care, college tuition, health care, mortgage and community assessments,» Eshoo says.

Middle - class, hard - working Baby - Boomer retirees who have taken care of their children, have excellent credit and have saved.