Child care

Then moving on to education.

And I suppose looking at Childcare, we're looking for an additional investment in capitation grants, an additional 10% capitation grants for ECCE providers in the budget at a cost of 26 million.

And then an additional enhancement in the rate for children as well at a cost of 9 million.

Moving on then to primary and post-primary education, a continuation of the Programme for Government Commitment to reduce the pupil-teacher ratio, so reduce it by one point in this budget, And also increase the capitation grant for schools of primary and post-primary by 5%.

But it looks to me, Matt, like this.

Currently, we have a welfare program known as the Child Care Development Fund, about $14 billion a year.

And this money basically goes to low-income parents who get a voucher to get child care.

And the whole point of it is so that they can go to work, get a certificate, go to school, or get retrained.

The point is to get them earning more money and getting off federal welfare programs.

I think you gave a pretty good description of what we know so far.

I think the debate about this proposal, it's not even an official proposal by the Trump administration.

But the debate over the idea of changing this one particular welfare program, opening it up to basically married couples, one of whom stays at home, would get up to $9,000 to defray the in-home child care costs.

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Um, and then on the other side, you have the, you know, the Trump administration through JD Vance really targeting a very specific kind of, uh, social status and really redirecting those funds, um, because it's going to be for...

You know, they're proposing $9,000 per child per year for stay-at-home mothers if they're in a two-parent married family, okay? So culturally, they're saying, you know, the CCDF, uh, which is the fund, the Child Care and Development Fund, which is the fund that, and we'll get into this, which has $12 billion in it right now.

The majority of those people using those funds are single parents in poverty, and you can look up all the demographics of who's using that, but mostly, um, at, below, or close to poverty level of whites, Blacks, Latinos, uh, single mothers mostly.

And they're g- they're saying, "Well, we're gonna take that fund, redirect it." The Trump administration is under executive order because, um, they're not creating a new law.

So what this is is a draft proposal, and it's not a passed law, like I just mentioned.

Um, and this is reported by The New York Times, confirmed by the Trump administration yesterday, I believe, uh, or September 8th.

Um, and it could potentially take effect next year, uh, and it's without congressional approval because once again, the program, the, uh, Child Care and Development Fund, is already instituted as law, but the executive branch gets to oversee how those funds are distributed.

And essentially, they're saying, "Well, instead of giving them to single parent homes, we're gonna give them to, uh, married homes and stay-at-home moms," essentially.

It's because the institution of daycare is a solution to a problem they don't have.

If care is embedded in daily life, if the baby comes to the field or the market or the workshop, there's no drop-off moment.

Daycare as a separate institution is a product of industrialization.

It emerged in the nineteenth century when work moved out of the home and into factories and offices.

Before that, in most societies, children were simply present where adults worked.

There's also the illness factor.

Hannah mentioned the baby has been under the weather.

Daycare is a pathogen exchange.

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All right, the Trump administration is proposing a stay-at-home parent child care subsidy.

And the New York Times broke the story.

And this is what it says.

And this is not the Trump administration proposing something that they need to find more money for.

It's not like they have to go scraping for more money.

The money has already been allocated for child care subsidies for working parents.

But now married stay-at-home parents could qualify for it.