Clinton Pushes His Child-Care Proposal

President Clinton seized on Take Your Daughters to Work Day to urge the Republican-controlled Congress to approve his $21.7-billion plan to improve child care. Surrounded in the White House Rose Garden by members of Congress, some with their daughters by their sides, Clinton argued that parents need federal assistance to afford child care, and the federal budget, expected to balance this year, could provide the money. Clinton’s proposal includes $7.5 billion to subsidize child care for low-income families, $5.2 billion to expand the child- and dependent-care tax credit and $3.8 billion for the Head Start program that helps disadvantaged preschoolers.