The Americans overwhelm the costs of childcare as an essential problem and most support initiatives to offer free or inexpensive day care and, according to a new survey, to oblige employers for parents of babies.
But they are divided how the problem can be solved and what role the government should play in this solution.
About three quarters of the US-growing people see the costs for childcare as a “big problem”, but only about half say that the payment of workers for childcare for the federal government should have a “high priority”.
The latest congress package with tax cuts included tax credits and services for parents and companies that support employees in childcare. These changes were praised by some, while others say that millions of families with a lower level of income do not receive full credit and would be affected by cuts in medicaid and grocery brands.
The survey results explain the level of difficulty, navigate chosen civil servants and families to tackle the high costs of care: Most are a problem with a problem, there is no uncomplicated solution. Although childcare financed by the government is popular, this may not be the first choice of everyone. Many US -grown -ups also think that it is better for children with two parents to be looked after by one parent full -time.
“Everyone agrees that it is a problem that we have to do,” said Sarah Rittling, managing director of the first five years Fonds -Advocacy organization. “By leading this problem out there, it really has a lot of cross -party conversations.”
A certain consensus on free day care and paid family vacation
Most Americans support initiatives to offer working families with babies childcare or additional time. About two thirds support the free or inexpensive day care for children who are too newborn to attend the public school, and a similar share in which employers have to be paid for new parents.
Women are more likely than men to support the suggestions, and Democrats are more common than Republicans, but each is popular across the board.
Mary Banek, an anesthetist of Midlothian, Texas, said she helps to take care of her 1-year-old grandson so that he does not need day care. When she had her children, she left the workforce and received a license to start day care from her house to watch 12 children, including her own so that she could generate income.
Banek said that she was surprised by the high fees among the tagers these days.
“I don’t know what happened and why it is so expensive,” said Banek and added, maybe there is a way to limit the costs. It does not have the feeling that the government should cost the costs.
Many think, parents should be supervisors
While many solutions are concentrating on families with working parents, it is not a broad income, this is the best agreement for children. Almost half of US -growing, 45%, say that children with two parents are better off if one parent does not have a job and raises the children. Only about 1 out of 10 say that children are better off when both parents work full -time, and about 4 out of 10 say that it makes no difference.
Vice President JD Vance has tried to urge ideas that would encourage the Americans to have families, but spoke out against the state expenditure for childcare and say that children benefit from a parent or family member as a caretaker.
About half of the men say that children with two parents are better off when you are the full -time supervisor compared to about 4 out of 10 women.
Stephen Yip-Wineman, 45, a high school teacher from Murrieta, California, who describes himself as moderate, said he had the feeling that society does not see the value of the parents who decide to be caretaker.
“Many people are brought into the idea that everyone will work in their family, and so it is a productive member of society,” said Yip-Wineman. “They think they stay at home and take care of the children somehow doesn’t contribute.”
Yip-Wineman has two children aged 12 and 14, and her mother stays at home, but he says that his ideas that one parent make the care does not have to do with the fact that the mother makes the main supervisor.
“It’s not about driving traditional Christian values and trying to keep women away at work,” he said. “It’s about dealing personally.”
Close changes?
Many Democrats and Republicans have supported the expansion of the tax credit for children to support families and to raise children and newborn families out of poverty.
While Vance used Donald Trump’s running comrades, he increased the opportunity to enhance the tax credit for children to 5,000 US dollars and said that more parents would stay at home with their children.
About 7 out of 10 US -growing gave the tax credit for children from 2,000 to 2,500 US dollars for parents who are US citizens, as a survey in Washington Post/Ipsos was determined from June. Republicans and Democrats were also likely: about 8 out of around 8 of each.
In the final invoice, however, the tax credit for children rose to $ 2,200.
Apart from the expansion of the tax credit for children, the package also increased an advantage, which made it possible for most working parents to claim a higher percentage of their childcare costs and to receive more tax credits.
Organizations would like to have increased funding for spring programs for early and care, including a childcare program for families with low income and an early construction program called Head Start. Trump’s Republican government has withdrawn from a proposal this year to eliminate the financing for the lead.
Other groups, including the knowledge of America’s childcare, have pointed out that the cuts of the new law in Medicaid would lead to a loss of health insurance for many childcare workers.
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The AP-NORC survey of 1,158 adults was carried out from June 5th to 9th using a sample from the probability base of NORC, which is designed as representative of the US population. The sales edge for adults in total is plus or minus 4 percentage points.
