Trump’s victory is not a victory for American families
Corin Hendrickson has opened Corin Littal’s explorers in New Galabros and Weskonsen nearly 18 years ago. She has since served 70 children in the field of family care.
But in August, you will close its doors, because running the program is no longer sustainable.
Likewise, the seedlings to the sunflower, the child care program in Maine, are struggling. She had to raise prices to meet the growing expenses, and instead created a financing gap as parents left the program because they could no longer bear its costs. The seedlings recently funded $ 25,000 from community and families to stay open, but this is not a sustainable strategy.
Meanwhile, my mother was salaries in Bidford, Ohio, very little so that they do not bear the care of children – which cost her nearly twice the rent of the family – but a lot of qualification to get help. In the end, her husband left his job to take care of their child.
These are some of the many reasons that I do not do in a victory for the relatively small child care provisions in Trump Mega Bill that took place in the law in July.
The rulings in the draft law will do nothing to help people like Hendrickson continue to serve children. Sunflower seedlings will not be allowed to keep their prices at reasonable prices or to support families such as the Ohio family to find and provide children’s care.
In this bill, Republicans did not give families any new options or opportunities to care for the child. The childcare sector will not get new resources to expand or support the basic support for more stable operations, which means that families will continue to find the child care options that work with them. Families who find options will still have a problem in paying high prices.
Some families may get more money by increasing the bill credit to help pay the child care costs. But the average credit for those who get it will be about $ 890 – a small damage to the average annual child care cost of $ 13,128.
Even those few families who may receive the new maximum credit of $ 3,000 will remain on a hook for a large payment, which are unlikely to absorb their low income.
Meanwhile, many families will see health care and food care as a result of the draft law, which may compensate for an increase in child care credit. And if the child’s care provider loses health insurance at the same time or leaves a job due to the invoice discounts in Medicaid, the child’s care arrangement may become unstable.
Support of the draft law on child care depends on tax credits and delay, and is not proportional to the richer families and companies – a comprehensive issue of the draft law itself. Specifically, the invoice expands three tax programs.
- The tax credit of the child and the care affiliated is a balance that comes to you after the money is spent in the foreground. Credit will not be useful if you cannot pay the child care costs at the forefront, or it is not possible to find care that meets your needs or do not earn enough to pay taxes.
- The care assistance program of parents who participate in employers who participate in choosing accounts that allocated pre -tax dollars to pay child care expenses. Parents who use flexible spending accounts can also not also use child tax credit and approved care for the same expenses.
- The child care credit offered by the employer provides tax credit for the spending of resources on expenses related to child care.
What families need is reliable and stable child care options that meet their needs – at reasonable, comfortable, comfortable, with no waiting menu. They want to know that their children are safe, happy, deserted and learn, and the first teachers who care about them are done well to stay in the profession they love. The Great Republican Law provides anything from that.
We are holding our elected officials at a very low level if we call this law a victory for children’s care for families who will continue to struggle to find and provide child care. When it is completely taken, the draft law is a great net loss for children and families.
It is difficult to shift in this matter and see “increasing progress” and “support for the two parties” when Republicans control Washington and insist on throwing a child’s care policy in chaos.
They were freezing, undesirable, delayed, then they moved forward to care for the child and start starting up to the states and programs, and suggest discounts for children’s care programs and early learning in proposing a federal budget.
Not to mention the Duji discounts that paid about half of the federal child care staff office and the closure of important regional child care offices and starting offices.
The political leadership must seek a future as Hendrickson, the mother in Ohio and families throughout the country, will have something to celebrate.
We already see candidates for the ruler in New Jersey and Virginia focusing on their plans to care for children at reasonable prices in their campaigns. The same applies to Zahran Mamdani’s victory in New York City, where he ran to caring for free children, which could be paid by the richest New York residents.
We must carry our elected representatives at a higher level to address families’ concerns, not jumping up and down when they mention these concerns while supporting the Brenx truck to the wealthy.
Jolly Cachene is the director of economic justice for women and her colleague at the Century Foundation.
