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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will unveil a sweeping proposal Tuesday to help families pay for child care for children 4 and under, in-home elder care for aging parents, and long-term care for the disabled. The plan, estimated to cost $775 billion over 10 years, would also fund 150,000 public health care worker jobs. "If we truly want to reward work in this country, we have to ease the financial burden of care that families are carrying, and we have to elevate the compensation, benefits, training, and education opportunities for certification, and dignity of caregiving workers and educators," Biden's...

During a press conference on Thursday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) stated that the city will have the typical child go to school in a classroom two or three times a week, but the city will provide childcare for 100,000 families to help those who can’t work if they don’t have childcare. De Blasio said that there will be a “blended learning approach, where the typical child goes two or three days a week to school, in the classroom.”

New Hampshire child care providers are urging Gov. Chris Sununu to reconsider regulations that many in the industry call unrealistic, even during the coronavirus pandemic. Since the Sununu administration released its original regulations allowing child care facilities to reopen, providers have been arguing that some of the restrictions are unworkable: limits on group sizes to 10 or less, having staff members wear masks or a washable cloth covering their nose and mouth “at all times while at work” — even while in break rooms with no other individuals present — and maintaining social distancing during meals. Chris Emond, a member...

The question is: What makes you think things are any better during the rest of the school year you don't see? Governors’ decisions to shut down schools may be the least science-informed of all the coronavirus impositions we’ve had to endure nationally over the past few months. As the Wall Street Journal recently noted: A recent study from Australia identified only 18 cases (nine children and nine staff) across 15 schools, and only two of the infected children’s 863 close contacts at the schools became ill. Another review last month, published by the Royal College of Paediatricians and Child Health,...

NEW YORK, December 10, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – A proposed law in the state of New York will make it compulsory for all public universities to provide abortion pills to students at the taxpayers’ expense. State assemblyman Harvey Epstein of the East Side of Manhattan introduced the bill to the New York State Assembly on November 25. The bill states: "Each public college student health center shall make available to all students abortion by medication techniques onsite. This service shall be provided by medical professionals on staff at such student health centers or by a third party who has contracted with...

Paid child care is expensive and eats up much of the income from lower-paid employment, which is all many mothers can get. What I propose is a system where two mothers can join up and provide mutual child care. Mom2 would work the days Mom1 doesn't. They might live in the same dwelling or just be neighbors. They would generally want to find a line of work that is seven days a week so they can each get close to 40 hours of work in each week. Grocery store work, retail store shelving work and restaurant work are some suitable...

To the Editor: As a Representative in New Hampshire’s legislature, I hear from my neighbors every day about the challenges their families face. The time for us to elect a new president is fast approaching, and with this in mind, I believe no candidate is better qualified to address the concerns of the nation and New Hampshire than Elizabeth Warren. I am endorsing Elizabeth for many reasons, but especially because of her Universal Child Care plan. Child care and education have always been important to me, and I know firsthand that the scarcity and cost of high-quality child care is...

Our country is being inundated with people from other countries at a scale far exceeding our existing capacity to economically absorb them. We need to change our labor laws to create economic places for them. Overstressed American women need affordable help in and around the house and with children. What can American families themselves afford to pay for domestic help? I say themselves because we certainly don't want to create any new federal subsidy program. State subsidy programs would be possible. My estimate is around $200/week plus room and board for the worker and the worker's significant others. That $200/week...

It sounds as if the other Democratic POTUS hopefuls already grabbed up a lot of the big ticket, “free” things to promise people. You know… like free college tuition, free healthcare, or free money for those unwilling to work. Elizabeth Warren was left to search for something else to give away and she appears to have settled on free child care. What will it cost? Only the paltry sum of nearly three-quarters of a trillion dollars. (Huffington Post) Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will unveil a major new initiative on Tuesday designed to make sure every family can afford high-quality...

Charlie Chaplin was one of the pioneering film making greats in Hollywood but could no longer live in America in the time of Joe McCarthy. The scale of things in America as opposed tp Chaplin's country of birth, England, may have helped him to get the star power that enabled him to do things like establish United Artists and thereby be independent. Not possible now? (Some bid stars can become producers but only as part of a team of producers not as sole producer/director.) To some people in America Chaplin was a communist. When forced to leave America he went...

<p>Viking rock music and whole pigs roasting on spits drew thousands of Swedes to a festival hosted by nationalists poised to deliver their country’s biggest political upheaval in a century.</p> <p>The Sweden Democrats have been led since 2005 by a clean-cut and bespectacled man, Jimmie Akesson. He’s gentrified a party that traces its roots back to the country’s neo-Nazi, white supremacist fringe. Some polls now show the group may become the biggest in Sweden’s parliament after general elections on Sept. 9. Such an outcome would end 100 years of Social Democratic dominance.</p>

RUSH: Here’s Chuck You Schumer. This is in Washington today on the Senate floor. Audio sound bite No. 24. SCHUMER: Overall, we Democrats are very happy with what we’ve been able to accomplish on a number of very important priorities to the middle class in America: infrastructure, education, opioid treatment, mental health, child care. This spending agreement brings that era of austerity to an unceremonious end and represents one of the most significant investments in the middle class in decades. RUSH: I don’t know, folks. I just want to puke when I hear this stuff. I just want to vomit....

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin––Five years ago today, on March 6, 2013, two pit bulls raised from puppyhood in a loving home environment killed Daxton James Borchardt, age 14 months, and badly injured his babysitter, Susan Iwicki, whose pit bulls turned on both of them. “The horrific attack started,” Borchardt recalls, “while Susan was carrying my son at the hip and letting her dogs back in from a potty break. Susan’s well-raised, loved and cared-for pit bulls ripped my son from her arms. A metal gate was ripped from the gatepost during the struggle. This unprovoked, prolonged, and unstoppable attack lasted an entire...

You’ve had a long day, and you have to get up early tomorrow morning. You’re tucked into bed and ready for a good night’s sleep when you hear it: Your neighbor’s baby is wailing away once again. Your sleep-deprived mind is split between two options: either do your best to ignore the infant’s unending crying fit, or file a noise complaint and let the police handle the problem. Many people have had to deal with this same scenario, and some folks on Quora shared their own stories on how they’ve dealt with it, but what would YOU do?

In fairly recent news, First Daughter Ivanka Trump made headlines for her work to gather support for affordable childcare and paid family leave. These changes will permit American families to deduct childcare expenses from their annual taxable incomes. Ivanka’s cause has transcended partisan lines; many Democrats are on board with the policy. President Trump also endorsed his daughter’s plan during last week’s address to Congress. However, CNBC has announced that “near term action remains slim” as a result of the White House’s central focus being the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obamacare.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn says she has been discussing legislation to make child care more affordable for working Americans with the President-elect's daughter, Ivanka Trump. "I am delighted to see that we're looking at options for tax credits, tax incentives, ways for moms and dads to be able to write-off this child-care cost," Blackburn told CNN's...on "State of the Union,"...-snip- The Tennessee Republican, who owns a small business, said she had concerns about child care as she was raising her kids. "It was so very difficult. It's one of the things I struggled with as my children were growing up," she...

Details of the Trump child care proposal and more Of course you heard the boss’s interview on Tuesday of Donald Trump himself. That’s what’s called in the biz a “big get,” and once you’ve got it, how do you top it? This might be how: Herman had the chance to introduce Ivanka and Tiffany Trump at a rally last night in the Atlanta area, and afterward he got some time to interview them too. Who cares? They’re just Trump’s daughters? I’d say it’s worth caring about for two reasons: 1. Ivanka has been a leader in developing Trump’s position on...

Just realized something. Donald and Ivanka made the announcements months ago about this. We just missed it. First, he called Ivanka, "My secret weapon", then she said at the RNC Convention, Equal Pay, Child Care. It's been said many times, he must win big to overcome election fraud and everything up until then. MSM Wolman Rink and the new DC Hotel are proof that he won't be costing taxpayers any more money. AND It's a (tax revenue producer) Pro life platform/benefit. Non tax revenue producers already get this stuff free. (Who's he doing bad with? Female and female pro life...

From Ivanka: Political reporters love to speculate about my role in my father’s campaign. By various accounts, I’m a pundit, a surrogate, a top strategist and a potential running mate (that one was interesting!). The real answer is actually the simplest: I am a loving daughter who was raised by my parents to hold strong convictions and to pursue solutions to problems. In my life, I’ve worked hard to do exactly that. We each have diverse political views and neither my site nor my company is, or ever will be, politically inclined. Over the course of the last year, my...

NEW YORK, NY – Today Mr. Trump will proposes an innovative plan to bring federal tax policies in line with the needs of today's families. His plan is not for the wealthy, but rather provides the biggest benefit to working- and middle-class families. This plan is needed because child care expenses are one of the largest expenses in many families, complicating a family's decision on how to care for young children. The Trump reforms will allow a family to make the choice of whether a parent should work outside the home or not without bias from the tax code. Having...