Hillary To Lay Out Agenda For Making Child Care Better And More Affordable

[JaneyVee]

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday will sketch out an agenda for helping families with young children, including an ambitious promise to put high-quality child care within financial reach of all working parents.

Clinton will explain her vision, campaign aides told The Huffington Post, during an appearance in Kentucky. The speech will mark the second consecutive day in which Clinton, front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, is focusing on work-family issues.

The most concrete part of the agenda, the campaign aides say, will be the two narrow but potentially important proposals. One would bolster a highly regarded “home visiting” program designed to help low-income children at risk of emotional, intellectual, and physical harm. If Clinton has her way, the program, known as theMaternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Initiative, would reach twice as many children as it does today.

The other initiative Clinton plans to introduce Tuesday would seek to boost pay for child-care workers, as a way to improve retention and attract educators with stronger qualifications. Clinton will call this the RAISE initiative, for “Respect And Increased Salaries for Early Childhood Educators,” and it will be based on successful pilot programs now operating in several states.

But by far the most intriguing part of Tuesday’s speech may be a promise that Clinton intends to make. According to the campaign aides, Clinton will say that the federal government should commit to making sure that no family ever pays more than 10 percent of its income on child-care expenses.

The rest:
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/hillary-clinton-child-care_us_57313fd7e4b096e9f09275b6?utm_hp_ref=politics

I know, I know, boring stuff, like wonkish policy grounded in political reality.

[Iliyah]

1. Hill Yes!

[cherokeeprogressive]

2. Wasn't she a Senator at one point?

Why didn't she do it then?

[JaneyVee]

3. Wasnt Bernie a Senator at one point during a supermajority?

[hobbit709]

4. Affordable child care at $12/hr?

[Armstead]

5. If Sanders had proposed this it would be called "free stuff" and a "pony" and tax raising..

From the linked article...And note the contrary nod to fiscal conservative as she does her "pivot" to the right...more of her having cake and eating it too pandering.

"A serious effort to make child care better and more affordable simultaneously, as Clinton apparently has in mind, would inevitably cost a great deal of money — money that would have to come from either new taxes or cuts to other programs, given Clinton’s vow to find offsets for any new government spending."

And note this contradictory statement, in light of her opposition to "paying to educate people like Donald Trumps children." I guess universal mandates are only bad when Sanders proposes them.

In fact, Clinton aides stressed that Clinton’s guarantee of support would apply to all working families, no matter what their income levels.

[Human101948]

6. And the Republicans will jump at a chance to pass this?

Where's the political reality?

[CanadaexPat]

7. Clintonoan small ball. n-t