Sentences with phrase «of child care costs»

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - N.Y.) continues to make her case for legislation that would help ease the burden of child care costs, which the senator says add up to $ 10,000 a year per child for the average central New York family.
Most provinces and territories provide some form of financial subsidy in support of child care costs.

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The average cost of child care is slightly under $ 10,000 per year per child, says Brigid Schulte, director of the Better Life Lab for New America, a nonpartisan think tank.
Parents could deduct no more than the average cost of child care in their state.
Economists treat parental leave, both for women and men, as a simple cost - benefit problem: in theory, at least, if a woman's wage is greater than the cost of replacing her in the home, then she should spend her time working and hire someone else to care for her children.
«We've been deeply committed to helping parents afford the costs of raising and caring for their children since the early days of the administration and will continue to advocate for relief for American families in the coming weeks.»
«The cost of child care traps many parents in a financial straitjacket,» Singh said in a statement Tuesday to The Canadian Press.
The Liberal government made promises in previous budgets to spend $ 7.5 billion over 11 years to help ease the burden of child - care costs.
You can talk to your employer about working from home one or two days a week to help defray the cost of a full week of child care.
Regardless of whether you and your partner remain in the workforce, look at different areas where you can scrimp to handle child care costs.
In the Empire State, the annual cost of placing your infant and 4 - year - old in a care center is $ 25,844, accounting for more than 12 percent of median income in the state, according to Child Care Awcare center is $ 25,844, accounting for more than 12 percent of median income in the state, according to Child Care AwCare Aware.
This account can be used for day care, after - school care, baby - sitting, or camp expenses for children under 13; it can also cover the costs of nursing or other care for employees» dependent parents.
Though the company covers 100 percent of health care costs, employees are not offered perks found at many companies, such as on - site child care, tuition reimbursement, and a 401 (k) match.
Our Government's Universal Child Care Benefit provides 1,200 dollars a year to parents to help with the costs of raising kids.
Publicly funded full - day kindergarten means parents no longer have to shell out for 10 months of child care for their five - year - olds (and, in Ontario, four - year - olds)-- a major cost savings.
The new program would see the Ontario government pledging to fund the cost of full - day, licensed child care starting once children turn two - and - a-half
These estimates assume child - care costs of $ 2.5 billion and incremental funding for ODA of $ 4.2 billion in 2019 - 20 (a gradual increase in funding over 10 years).
NDP commitments include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (already implemented by the Conservatives (but with a different phase in); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; and, increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI).
NDP promises include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented in the budget by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (also already implemented by the Conservatives); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI); and restoring the 6 % annual escalator to the Canada Health Transfer.
«We certainly applaud government's efforts on easing the burden of high housing costs and increasing access to child care, but in introducing a payroll tax to offset lost MSP premium revenues this Budget delivers another meaningful blow to small to medium employers, especially in the service and technology sectors,» adds Black.
An increase in child disability benefits «To recognize the additional costs of caring for a child with a severe disability,» Budget 2016 will continue the Child Disability Benefit but add an additional amount of up to $ 2,730 for each child who is eligible for the Disability Tax Crchild disability benefits «To recognize the additional costs of caring for a child with a severe disability,» Budget 2016 will continue the Child Disability Benefit but add an additional amount of up to $ 2,730 for each child who is eligible for the Disability Tax Crchild with a severe disability,» Budget 2016 will continue the Child Disability Benefit but add an additional amount of up to $ 2,730 for each child who is eligible for the Disability Tax CrChild Disability Benefit but add an additional amount of up to $ 2,730 for each child who is eligible for the Disability Tax Crchild who is eligible for the Disability Tax Credit.
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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 a bid to deal with Ontario's high child care costs, the Wynne government will offer free licensed care for preschoolers at an average saving of $ 17,000 per child.
At the same time, the cost of living for workers — especially housing and child care — has increased.
You might think that Trump's proposed deduction for child care costs would mitigate some of these tax increases.
In those provinces, parents are required to cover the majority of costs associated with child care.
«They are struggling to support children in a school system Christy Clark tore down, struggling to support their parents at a time when Liberals have left 9 in 10 residential care facilities understaffed, and struggling to make ends meet when we have the slowest wage growth in the country and the highest cost of living.
Unless you have had to take care of a sick, screaming child, who costs money, and eats food, and needs MY attention, and unless YOU YOUSELF is willing to assume all those responsibilities for me, than you should have NOTHING to say if I decide to KILL my child.
Because child care is so often the result of the entrepreneurial activities of young women with little or no capital or business experience, finding space at low cost is especially attractive to the industry.
Mintz concludes that the psychological cost to children has steadily grown more apparent, and he makes the familiar array of policy recommendations: more widely available health care, education reform, subsidized high - quality child care, family - friendly employment policies, a living wage, a limited work week and economic support to the impoverished.
Low - cost programs serving millions of children and their families have provided quality care for years, and have, in their own way, contributed to the lives of congregations.
There is also the possibility that the children may need more psychiatric care when they see so much less of their parents, but I will not get into such indirect costs.
Even though alcoholism ranks as one of the country's three major health problems, along with cancer and heart disease; even though it accounts for approximately 98,000 deaths every year; even though it is the root cause of most pastoral - care crises (suicides, auto fatalities, child abuse, divorces, hospital admissions, accidental deaths and home violence); even though it costs the nation $ 120 billion annually in terms of lost work time, health and welfare benefits, property damage, medical expenses, insurance and lost wages; and even though its effects impair the educational process of every child in every classroom, still the church acts as though alcoholism does not exist.
As I understand the conservative position, health care is not a God given right and the true sin is those without, or unable to afford, health insurance depending on emergency care services to provide health care to themselves and their children adding to the insurance and health costs of those that can afford it.
It prevents higher insurance costs incurred in prenatal care and birthing services, as well as the state support of unwanted children.
Insurance companies know the cost of preventive care in no way exceeds the costs associated with child birth and prenatal care.
These stories deal with the problems of living with Alzheimer's Disease or stroke damage, the abuse of the elderly by their children, nursing home horror stories, the cost of long - term care, and the problems of those who must work, care for their children, and also care for elderly relatives.
In total the foundation has worked with nearly 50 New Orleans schools and organizations, providing $ 300,000 to New Orleans Outreach for after - school assistance; $ 127,550 to the New Orleans Recreation Department to help with initial costs in the restoration of Pontchartrain Park; $ 78,000 to Best Buddies Louisiana, which facilitates one - to - one friendships for adults with intellectual disabilities; and $ 74,000 to the Greater New Orleans Rebuild Child Care Collaborative, to restore child - care facilities lost to KatChild Care Collaborative, to restore child - care facilities lost to KatrCare Collaborative, to restore child - care facilities lost to Katchild - care facilities lost to Katrcare facilities lost to Katrina.
Where better engagement is taking place, local authorities are also experiencing cost - savings, through more children being placed with fathers and paternal relatives, instead of being taken into local authority care.
It's true that more men are at home caring for the kids than ever before — there are about 2 million stay - at - home dads — but, and this is a big but, the largest number of stay - at - home fathers, 35 percent, are at home because of illness or disability, according to the Pew Research Center, not by choice, versus 73 percent of stay - at - home mothers, who either are choosing to be at home (presumably with the blessing of their partner) or who have had to opt out for any number of reasons (the cost of child care perhaps).
Once children are welcome in society, maybe people in countries like Germany that need young people badly to pay for the retirement and health care costs of the older segments of the population, will consider having more children.
Much of the coverage on Obama's health care reform law has focused on reducing costs, expanding coverage, and ensuring benefits for children with pre-existing medical conditions.
Working parents who may already budget for after - school or other child care during the school year may find it easier to cover the cost of summer camp.
Before you give birth, consider the cost of daycare or child care arrangements, diapers, formula or baby food, clothes every few months as the baby is growing like a weed, medical insurance and educational expenses.
Not only should you look at the long - term expenses but think about the costs that will suck the money out of your pocketbook right away — co-pays, insurance deductibles, hospital bills, prescriptions, diapers, child care, baby shampoos, wipes, diaper rash cream and baby gear or clothes you don't have leftover from your other children.
The malpractice claim is for the harm your child has suffered, and for the cost of baby care and treatment for your child.
Subsidies may be offered to help defray the costs of raising a child with special needs and take care of medical expenses.
That being the case, why not try to make the food we're supplying our children — the future of this country, after all — best serve their physical and educational needs, rather than contributing to long term health care costs that we all pay for down the line?
Not only do we need a system that recognises the costs of caring for children but we need acknowledgement that work - family balance has been a gender issue and that many parents (of both sexes) would prefer to combine jobs and childcare in a more flexible way.
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