Word: carefulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seventy-five percent of the allocated funds would go to low-to-moderate-income families to purchase child care, while the rest would aid in training supervisors and encouraging business involvement. State governments would then match that funding by 20 percent, Kildee says...
...addition to providing money to subsidize child care programs, Kildee says the bill would try to set minimum health and safety standards for the people and centers receiving its funding to protect children from poor conditions or neglect...
...there are those, like President Bush, who oppose the bill, arguing that the legislation would weaken the family by providing child care...
...Kildee says, "I totally reject the conservative argument that subsidizing child care would weaken the family. I think child care is very pro-family. The structure of the family has changed in recent years." And as a result, he adds, the government must help support working parents...
According to Kildee, when the bill reaches its final form it will probably include provisions from the Hawkins bill on Head Start programs and the Bush Administration's bill granting tax credits to low-income families to help provide child care...