Obama Proposes Larger Subsidies for Child Care

The New York Times: federal assistance to working Americans struggling to afford child care, choosing a Democratic pocket in a solidly Republican state to sharpen the contrast between the two parties’ economic visions.

In an appearance at the University of Kansas — his second stop in a Republican state in two days of promoting his domestic initiatives — Mr. Obama called for an $80 billion expansion of a federal program that provides child care subsidies to low- and middle-income families with children ages 3 and under, nearly doubling the aid and offering it to more than one million additional children over the next decade.

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