«In the 2016 and 2017 budgets we were able to increase funding for things
like subsidized child care for low - income families and an addition to County Police - without raising taxes.
Not exact matches
A few of the many things that jump off of the pages for me are that it doesn't seem to support working families with kids (it REPEALS the up to $ 5,000 exclusion from gross income for dependent
care assistance that many working parents use to
subsidize the skyrocketing costs of
child care while they work) or even those who (
like my fantastic law students at UNLV) are pursuing and paying for higher education.
In other jurisdictions, I see people fighting against
subsidized day
care because (a) young
children should be at home with their parents and (b) other people should have to save and pay full price for day
care just
like they did.
«But if we really want to improve maternal and
child health in this country, let's also focus on things that can really do that in the long term —
like subsidized day
care, better maternity - leave policies and more employment opportunities for low - income mothers that pay a living wage, for example.»