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The Trump administration is considering a proposal to extend child care subsidies to stay-at-home parents.
Child care subsidies have historically functioned as a labor-market instrument: offset the cost of purchased care, and more parents can enter or remain in the workforce.
Redirecting that support to households where a parent has already chosen to stay home rewrites the underlying logic of the program, and the question of how matters as much as the question of whether.
How the mechanism shifts The case for this expansion is coherent on its own terms. A stay-at-home parent performs the same caregiving work that a subsidized day care center provides.
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