Childcare Subsidies Quotes

I think we should be looking at ways that we can make childcare more available at the place of employment.

Our tax code encourages people to raise thoroughbred horses, not children.

We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.

There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.

We need government policies that will strengthen families and encourage people to have more children.

As president, my father will change the labor laws put in place when women were not a significant portion of the workforce. He will make childcare affordable and accessible to all. He will fight for equal pay for equal work, and I will fight for this, too, right alongside of him.

It would be a tragic mistake for Congress ever to adopt any public or tax policy which encourages mothers to assign child care to others and enter the labor force.

We have created a ministry of the family to work on fertility, nurseries, on a fiscal system which takes large families into account.

Every working family in America knows how hard it is today to find affordable childcare or early childhood education.

The SAFE Kids and Jobs Act would help millions of Americans pay for childcare while working.

Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely.

Early childhood offerings vary, but everywhere in Europe and in Canada, they're far more generous than in the United States. Ukrainian dads may not change enough diapers, but their government offers paid maternity leave; practically free preschool; and per-baby payments equivalent to eight months of an average salary.

I gradually understood why European mothers aren't in perpetual panic about their work-life balance and don't write books about how executive moms should just try harder: Their governments are helping them - and doing it competently.

That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children.