(VitalNews.org) – Many have looked to the presidential nominees on both sides to see their plans for combating the increasing cost of childcare in the United States.
Project 2025 lays out some ideas on how this cost might be combatted during the next president’s term. The plan ultimately lays out a plan that would shift funding from childcare to in-home family care. The main reasoning for this is due to claims that say children that go to childcare are more likely to suffer from depression, neglect, and anxiety.
Project 2025 was made by The Heritage Foundation and is a plan that would outline a list of policies if Donald Trump were to win the election for this year.
The Project says, “Prioritize funding for home based childcare, not universal day care.” It doesn’t provide any actual evidence about its claims on what children experience while in childcare, despite its section about childcare.
“Concurrently, children who spend significant time in day care experience higher rates of anxiety, depression, and neglect as well as poor educational and developmental outcomes. Instead of providing universal day care, funding should go to parents either to offset the cost of staying home with a child or to pay for familial, in-home childcare,” it said.
It also touches on a claim that overtime pay requirements discourage employers from having benefits for childcare. During Trump’s first term, he proposed a plan to cut federal programs and give more of those funds to help lower childcare costs and provide cuts to early childhood education.
He spoke of taxing other foreign nations in order to bring these numbers down from what Americans are used to seeing.
Trump’s running mate Vance said that grandparents might not be able to help even if they want to help, and funding in home care can help to provide for grandparents who want to help with childcare.
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