Tag: Child Care

How Donald Trump Is Trying to Win Over Women Voters

Charlotte Alter, TIME – September 16, 2016

In an attempt to chip away at Hillary Clinton’s double-digit lead with women voters, Donald Trump is ditching some aspects of GOP orthodoxy and embracing feminist stances on contraception, child care and paid leave.

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Ivanka Trump on Her Father’s New Child Care and Maternity Leave Policy

Prachi Gupta, Cosmopolitan – September 14, 2016

At the forefront of his outreach efforts has been 34-year-old Ivanka Trump, an executive at the Trump Organization and mother of three, who talked about the importance of supporting working mothers in her RNC speech and was a major influence behind the proposal. Ivanka helped Donald Trump announce the plan on stage in Pennsylvania on Tuesday night and wrote an op-ed detailing specifics of the new policy, published in the Wall Street Journal. Cosmopolitan.com spoke with Ivanka over the phone Wednesday morning about her father’s new family leave and child care policy.

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Donald Trump Unveils Plan for Families in Bid for Women’s Votes

Nick Corasanti and Maggie Haberman, New York Times – September 13, 2016

Donald J. Trump unveiled a menu of proposals on Tuesday to help working parents, calling for six weeks of mandatory paid maternity leave and expanded tax credits for child care.

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Donald Trump, Joined by Ivanka Trump, to Outline Child Care Policy

Robert Costa, Washington Post – September 13, 2016

Donald Trump on Tuesday will unveil several policy proposals for lowering child-care costs that were crafted in part by his eldest daughter, Ivanka, who will appear with him at a community center in a suburb of Philadelphia.

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With Softer Tone, Trump Touts Childcare Plan with Ivanka

Eli Stokols, Politico – September 13, 2016

Donald Trump made an overt appeal to the women voters he is struggling to win over, outlining a family leave plan for new mothers and flushing out a proposed childcare tax credit that he says were both inspired by his daughter, Ivanka.

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